The Detention Center
Fulton County Correctional Facility
- Operated byFulton County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail addressCounty Complex, 2710 State Highway 29, Johnstown, NY 12095
- Rated capacity165 beds
- Daily populationAbout 125 people on an average day
- VisitingTwo one-hour visits a week, booked at least 24 hours ahead through the county's online scheduler
- Published rulesAn incarcerated-individual visitation policy is published as a PDF on the county site
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Willis Wood
Source: Fulton County Department of Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗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
- Beds165
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Richard C. Giardino
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Fulton County Correctional Facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- DivisionsAdministration, Civil, Communications, Corrections, Road Patrol
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fulton 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.
Fulton 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.
- NoteCounty Office Building, 223 West Main Street, Johnstown.
- The boardFulton County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied /sheriff URL returned a 404; the working page is /sheriffs-office on the same county domain.
- The Department of Corrections page names the Fulton County Correctional Facility, gives 165 beds and an average daily population of about 125, and names the jail captain.
- A visitation policy PDF is published on the county site; it sets out rules but no fees, PREA material or bail guidance.
- The only in-custody lookup offered is the commercial VINE service, so the roster check is 'no'.
- The 2026 adopted budget carries "A.3110.3110 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT" at $16,076,890 and "A.3110.3150 CORRECTIONS".
- No death-in-custody record, inspection report or jail 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 Fulton 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