The Detention Center
Columbia County Jail
- Operated byColumbia County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address85 Industrial Tract, Hudson, NY 12534
- Rated capacity135
- Public Safety Facility opened1989
- BailBail accepted at the facility at any hour in cash, certified money order or credit card; bonds only through a bail bondsman and the court of jurisdiction
- Money deposits24-hour lobby kiosk; phone accounts funded through GTL/Viapath
- HALT reportingMonthly segregated-confinement figures published
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Patrick Delaney, Chief Corrections Officer
Source: Columbia County Sheriff — Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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 built1989 (Public Safety Facility opened)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds135
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jacqueline Salvatore
- Runs the jailYes — the Columbia County Jail is staffed by the Sheriff's corrections officers
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- DivisionsCorrections, Law Enforcement, Civil Enforcement, Communications
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Columbia 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.
Columbia 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.
- Note18 town supervisors and 5 Hudson city supervisors.
- The boardColumbia County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied columbiacountyny.com address redirects to the county's own columbiacountyny.gov site.
- The Corrections page names the Columbia County Jail, gives a rated capacity of 135 and names the chief corrections officer.
- The county publishes a full PREA page setting out a zero-tolerance policy, reporting routes and victim support.
- The 'Misc. Jail Information' page explains how bail and bonds are posted and how money may be deposited, but publishes no phone, commissary or video-visit rates.
- The 2026 adopted budget on the county's document centre lists 'Sheriff 3110' and 'Corrections (Jail) 3150'.
- No in-custody roster, inspection report, death-in-custody record or contract was found on the county's own site.
- 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 Columbia 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