The Detention Center
Monroe County Jail
- Operated byMonroe County Sheriff's Office (Jail Bureau)
- Jail address130 Plymouth Ave. South, Rochester, NY 14614
- Rated capacity1,217 beds, as published by the Jail Bureau
- Facility name on the state listMonroe County Jail and Correctional Center
- Daily rosterRoster, census, received and released PDFs posted on monroecounty.gov, updated daily Monday to Friday
- Inmate fundsCommissary Fund 9618 and Telephone/Tablet Fund 9620 described on the sheriff's site; no rates given
Source: Monroe County Sheriff's Office Jail Bureau · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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
- Beds1,217
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Todd K. Baxter
- Runs the jailYes — the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Jail Bureau operates the Monroe County Jail.
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (New York County Law art. 17)
- Office websitemonroecountysheriff-ny.gov, a separate domain from monroecounty.gov
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Monroe 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.
Monroe 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.
- NoteMonroe County also has an elected County Executive. The Legislature has 29 members; its president is named on the Legislature page.
- The boardMonroe County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied county URL resolved to a stub that pointed at the sheriff's own domain, monroecountysheriff-ny.gov; both domains were used.
- The sheriff's site posts a daily roster, a census, and received and released lists as PDFs hosted on monroecounty.gov.
- The Jail Bureau page gives a rated capacity of 1,217 beds.
- PREA: the sheriff publishes a zero-tolerance statement on sexual abuse and harassment with a reporting number, and links the national PREA standards.
- The county publishes adopted budgets from 2014 to 2026 on its finance and budget page.
- HALT Act RRU and segregation reports are referenced as posted on monroecounty.gov, but no death-in-custody record or county-posted inspection report was found.
- No commissary, phone or video-visit rates were published; the jail funds page explains the funds but gives no rates.
- 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 Monroe 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