The Detention Center
Lewis County Jail
- Operated byLewis County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address5252 Outer Stowe St, Lowville, NY 13367 (county's own page)
- Address on state listNYS Commission of Correction list gives P.O. Box 233, Outer Stowe Street, Lowville, NY 13367
- Who is heldUnsentenced people awaiting disposition, sentenced people, boarded inmates from surrounding areas, and civil confinements from Family Court
- VisitationTwo one-hour contact visits per week, Wednesdays and Saturdays, sign-up seven days ahead
- Rated capacityNot published on the county site
- Jail AdministratorLieutenant Tim Thayer II
Source: Lewis County — Jail · 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 Michael Carpinelli
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office is responsible for the management of Lewis County jails and inmates
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (NY County Law art. 17)
- UndersheriffJason McIntosh
- Office historyThe Sheriff's Office states it has served the county since 1805
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lewis 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.
Lewis 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.
- NoteBoard of Legislators, with agendas, minutes and local laws posted.
- The boardLewis County Board of Legislators →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The jail page publishes bail guidance — cash, money order, certified bank check payable to the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, card through a payment line, or a bondsman.
- The county's 2026 Adopted Budget has separate 'Jail' and 'Sheriff' sections in its contents.
- The jail page says the facility houses boarded inmates from surrounding areas, but no boarding contract or rate is published, so contracts is 'no'.
- HALT Act monthly segregated-confinement reports are posted at https://lewiscountyny.gov/departments/jail/halt-act-monthly-reports/; they carry no population or capacity figure.
- Commissary is through a named vendor with no rates published, so fees is 'no'.
- One search was spent confirming the sheriff's name; the county's own Sheriff's Office page names Michael Carpinelli as Sheriff and Jason McIntosh as Undersheriff, and the New York State Sheriffs' Institute listing agrees.
- What was tried: the supplied URL https://www.lewiscountyny.gov/departments/sheriff/ opened and is the right New York 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 Lewis 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