The Detention Center
Delaware County Jail
- Operated byDelaware County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address280 Phoebe Lane, Suite 1, Delhi, NY 13753
- Budget line13150 Jail, alongside 13110 Sheriff
Source: Delaware County 2026 budget index · checked 2026-09-20
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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 Craig S. DuMond
- Runs the jailYes — the county budget carries the jail under the Sheriff
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office address280 Phoebe Lane, Suite 1, Delhi, NY 13753
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Delaware 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.
Delaware 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.
- NoteSupervisors from 17 towns, weighted votes totalling 200.
- The boardDelaware County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied co.delaware.ny.us address redirects to the county's own delcony.gov site.
- The county site's sheriff pages (home, contact, posts) carry no jail, visitation, commissary, bail or PREA content.
- The Sheriff's separate site, delawarecountysheriffny.gov, holds correctional-facility, visitation and in-custody-search pages, but every one of them was refused to our reader by robots.txt, so nothing there could be judged.
- The 2026 budget index on the county site lists '13110 Sheriff' and '13150 Jail'.
- Because no county or sheriff page we could open names or describes the jail, those checks stay 'no' rather than being scored from pages we never saw.
- Not scored: The sheriff's own site holds the correctional-facility, visitation and in-custody pages but every one was refused by robots, leaving only county sheriff home/contact stubs with no jail content. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked. Found published on the pages that did open: budget.
- 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 Delaware 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