The Detention Center
Madison County Jail (Sheriff's Correction Division)
- Operated byMadison County Sheriff's Office, Correction Division
- Jail address138 N Court Street, Building 7, Wampsville, NY 13163
- Address on state listNYS Commission of Correction list gives P.O. Box 16, N. Court Street, Wampsville, NY 13163
- CommandCaptain, supported by nine supervisors including two lieutenants
- VisitingWednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, afternoon and evening sessions; government photo ID required
- Rated capacityNot published on the county site
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Neal Schneider, Correction Division
Source: Madison County — Correction Division · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
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 Todd Hood
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Correction Division runs the county jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (NY County Law art. 17)
- DivisionsCivil, Correction, Criminal, Community Services
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Madison County Sheriff's Office — Divisions · 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.
Madison 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 Supervisors; the 2026 budget was adopted by the Board on 2 December 2025.
- The boardMadison County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Correction Division pages are reasonably full: bail and bail bonds, visiting, before you visit, packages, mail and phone, education/medical/religious services, segregated confinement and an FAQ.
- Bail guidance is clear: cash bail at the jail 24/7, photo ID required, no personal cheques, cards accepted with a fee, and how a bail bond works.
- Fees: the mail and phone page publishes a rate — '$0.60 for a two-page letter' through the county's electronic message service. No phone or commissary rate is published.
- Budget: the county's archived 2025 County Budget carries 'A311030 - SHERIFF'S OFFICE' and 'A315030 - SHERIFF - CORRECTIONAL FACILITY' appropriation lines. The current 2026 budget book is hosted on an outside budget portal, so the county-hosted archive copy is cited instead.
- Inmate search is only an outside victim-notification/aggregator link, which never counts, so roster is 'no'.
- What was tried: the supplied URL https://www.madisoncounty.ny.gov/256/Sheriff returned a Social Services page, not the Sheriff; the Sheriff's pages are under /3010 and /302 on the same county domain.
- 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 Madison 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