Oneida County, New York — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Oneida County Correctional Facility (Oneida County Jail)

Operated byOneida County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
Jail address6065 Judd Road, Oriskany, NY 13424, as the sheriff's own site gives it
Address on the state list6075 Judd Road, Oriskany, NY 13424 — the state list and the sheriff's site differ by one digit
Rated capacity634 prisoners
Renovation and expansionRenovated and expanded 1996 to 1998 at a cost of about $30 million
Age of the officeThe sheriff's site says the county has had a jail for over 200 years
Records office315-768-7804

Source: Oneida County Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Oneida County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds634

Since then

Renovated and expanded 1996 to 1998 at a cost of about $30 million

The Sheriff

Sheriff Robert M. Maciol

Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Oneida County Correctional Facility.
How the office is filledElected county sheriff (New York County Law art. 17)
Office websiteThe supplied URL oneidacountysheriff.us redirects to sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Oneida 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.

Oneida County Circuit Court

Not found

Still needed

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.
NoteOneida County also has an elected County Executive.
The boardOneida County Board of Legislators →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The supplied URL redirected to the sheriff's own domain, sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov, which is well built out.
The inmate list is a genuine county roster: name, sex, race, age, booking date and charges for people presently held, refreshed about every six hours.
The corrections page publishes a rated capacity of 634 and describes a 1996 to 1998 renovation costing about $30 million.
Bail: the sheriff publishes an online cash-bail payment route through GovPayNet and explains what is needed to use it.
The sheriff's site gives the jail address as 6065 Judd Road; the state Commission of Correction list supplied with this assignment gives 6075 Judd Road. Both are recorded rather than choosing between them.
Video visits are run through a commercial service and no rate is published; no commissary, phone or booking fee rates were found.
The county's own budget page was refused by our reader, so the budget check is recorded as no. What was tried: oneidacountyny.gov/departments/budget/ returned a provenance refusal twice.
No PREA page, death-in-custody record, county-posted inspection report or contract 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 Oneida 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