The Detention Center
Clinton County Jail
- Operated byClinton County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address25 McCarthy Drive, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
- VisitingTwo visits per week, one hour each; schedule varies by housing pod
- BailBail may be paid online through GovPayNet; a service-fee schedule is published
- Independent jail monitorThe county publishes appointment letters for a PREA Coordinator and an Independent Jail Monitor in English and Spanish
- HALT reportingMonthly segregated-confinement figures published for 2022-2026
Source: Clinton County Sheriff — Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Favro
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Corrections Division operates the Clinton County Jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- DivisionsCorrections, Civil, Patrol
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Clinton County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
New York's county and supreme court justices are state judicial officers, not county officials; city, town and village justices also set bail for people arrested in their areas.
Clinton County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-20
The County Legislature or Board of Supervisors
They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe jail budget, the building itself, and the agreements that rent its beds to other agencies. Several counties also have an elected County Executive. In Westchester a county Department of Correction runs the jail rather than the sheriff.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations, and state oversight. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail in most counties (NY Correction Law art. 20), while the State Commission of Correction sets the standards, inspects the facility and investigates every death in custody. The five New York City counties have no county sheriff jail at all — the city Department of Correction runs them.
- NoteTen legislators elected to four-year terms from equal-population districts.
- The boardClinton County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied clintoncountygov.com address redirects to clintoncountyny.gov, the county's own domain.
- The Corrections Division page names the Clinton County Jail and sets out visiting rules and an online bail-payment service-fee schedule.
- A PREA page names an Independent Jail Monitor and links appointment letters in English and Spanish.
- The only in-custody lookup offered is the commercial VINELink service, so the roster check is 'no'.
- The 2024 county budget on the county site carries 'A3110090 B SHERIFF' and 'A3150000 B JAIL' lines.
- No rated capacity, daily population, inspection report, death-in-custody record, contract or fee schedule was found on the county's own pages.
- State inspection/oversight: New York's State Commission of Correction oversees every local correctional facility in the state, sets the minimum standards they must meet, inspects them, and investigates every death in custody.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Clinton County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the legislators who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered