The Detention Center
Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center
- Operated byDutchess County Sheriff's Office, Correction Division
- Jail address150 North Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
- BailBail and bonds accepted seven days a week, 24 hours a day, including holidays; full cash bail or credit card at the facility, bonds only through a bondsman
- VisitsTwo 60-minute contact visits a week, plus a 30-minute booth visit in the first 24 hours
- Commissary limitsWeekly order capped at $125, with $95 food and $30 hygiene sub-caps
- HALT reportingSegregated-confinement statistics published yearly, 2022 to 2026
- ProgramsRESTART reentry programming
- Jail AdministratorColonel William T. Moore, Superintendent
Source: Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗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 Kirk Imperati
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Correction Division runs the Justice and Transition Center
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- DivisionsCorrection, Civil, Detective, Emergency Services, Crash Investigation
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Dutchess 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.
Dutchess 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.
- NoteThe county also has an elected County Executive.
- The boardDutchess County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied Sheriff.htm URL returned a 404 page; the working page is Dutchess-County-Sheriffs-Office.htm on the same county domain.
- The county runs a full set of jail pages: visitation rules and dress code, bail and bonds, inmate funds and commissary, programs, HALT statistics and FOIL requests.
- The Bail and Bonds page is clear published guidance on how bail is posted, so bond_info is 'yes'.
- The commissary page gives weekly spending caps and says service fees apply to kiosk, online and phone deposits, but publishes no rates, so the fees check stays 'no'.
- The only in-custody lookup offered is the State Commission of Correction's locator, a state site, so the roster check is 'no'.
- The 2026 adopted budget carries a 'Sheriff/Jail' appropriation of $73,385,065.
- No rated capacity, PREA policy, inspection report, death-in-custody record or contract 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 Dutchess 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