The Detention Center
Montgomery County Jail
- Operated byMontgomery County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address200 Clark Drive, P.O. Box 432, Fultonville, NY 12072
- Corrections phone518-853-5555, as listed in the county directory
- UndersheriffCarl J. Rust, named in the county directory
Source: Montgomery County directory (county site) · 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
- ✗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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jeffery T. Smith
- Runs the jailYes — the county directory lists the Sheriff's Office and Jail as one entry at 200 Clark Drive, Fultonville.
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (New York County Law art. 17)
- Also namedThe sheriff's own site's resources page names the sheriff as Jeff Smith.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Montgomery County directory (county site) · 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.
Montgomery 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.
- NoteMontgomery County also has an elected County Executive, Pete Vroman, named on the county's executive page.
- The boardMontgomery County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied URL, montgomerycountyny.gov/sheriff, returned 404; the county's own root and the sheriff's own site, montgomerycountysheriffny.com, were opened instead.
- The sheriff's own site is thin: it carries contact, press, resources, history and donations pages and no corrections, inmate, visitation, commissary, bail or PREA page.
- The sheriff's resources page says a phone app gives 'vital jail information', but nothing about the jail is published on the web pages themselves.
- The county's own directory names the Sheriff's Office and Jail and gives its address, which is the only place the county names the jail.
- Adopted county budgets for 2020 to 2026 are published on the county's budgets page.
- No roster, capacity, PREA, deaths, inspection, contract, bail-guidance or fee page was found on either domain.
- 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 Montgomery 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