The Detention Center
Genesee County Jail
- Operated byGenesee County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address3839 West Main St. Rd, Batavia, NY 14020 (county's own jail page)
- Address on state listNYS Commission of Correction list gives 14 W. Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020
- Jail phone(585) 343-0838
- ProgramsWeekend Work Detail for non-violent, low-risk individuals
- Rated capacityNot published on the county site
- Jail AdministratorDiana M. Prinzi, Jail Superintendent
Source: Genesee County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 Joseph M. Graff
- Runs the jailYes — the Genesee County Sheriff's Office operates the Genesee County Jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (NY County Law art. 17)
- UndersheriffRyan M. DeLong
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Genesee County Sheriff's Office — Administration · 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.
Genesee 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 Legislature, with a County Manager running day-to-day administration.
- The boardGenesee County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county site names the Genesee County Jail and carries sub-pages for Bail, Visitation, Phone & Commissary, Incoming Mail, Jail FAQs and Weekend Work Detail.
- The Bail page gives clear posting guidance: cash or card 24/7 at the jail, photo ID required, remote payment through a card portal, plus local court contact numbers.
- Phone (Securus) and commissary (Access Corrections) vendors are named, but no rates are published, so fees is 'no'.
- The county publishes a HALT Act segregated-confinement reporting PDF at https://www.geneseeny.gov/files/sharedassets/county/v/23/sheriff/documents/segregated-confinement-facility-reporting.pdf; it is not a population, capacity or inspection record.
- The county budget page carries only the County Manager's budget message with no document links, so no budget document showing a jail or sheriff line could be opened.
- What was tried: the supplied URL https://www.co.genesee.ny.us/departments/sheriff/ was refused by robots; the county root redirects to geneseeny.gov. Three geneseeny.gov pages (Government/Public-Safety/Jail, Government/Administration/County-Legislature, Government/Public-Notices/Legislative-Meetings) were also refused by robots.
- No searches were spent on this county.
- 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 Genesee 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