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

The Detention Center

Orange County Jail (the county also calls it the Orange County Correctional Facility)

Operated byOrange County Sheriff's Office
Jail address110 Wells Farm Road, Goshen, NY 10924
Stated purposeTo contribute to public safety by maintaining a balanced correctional system with institutional and community programs
VisitingPre-scheduled contact visits can be arranged online; video conferencing is available for professional visits
PREA materialThe corrections page carries a Prison Rape Elimination Act document and links Department of Homeland Security PREA regulations and ICE PREA investigations
Jail AdministratorColonel Lawrence Catletti, Correctional Command Staff

Source: Orange County — Corrections (Jail) · 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 — not published
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Orange 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Paul Arteta

Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office has a Correctional Command Staff and the county's Corrections (Jail) page sits under the Sheriff's Office.
How the office is filledElected county sheriff (New York County Law art. 17)
Office address110 Wells Farm Road, Goshen, New York 10924

Still needed

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

Source: Orange County Sheriff Paul Arteta · 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.

Orange 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.
NoteOrange County also has an elected County Executive. The Legislature sits in Goshen.
The boardOrange County Legislature →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The supplied URL was on the wrong domain. orangecountygov.com refused our reader outright; the county's live domain is orangecountyny.gov, and every finding here comes from that domain.
The Sheriff is named on his own county page, and the Correctional Command Staff page names Colonel Lawrence Catletti as its chief.
PREA: the corrections page carries a Prison Rape Elimination Act document and links federal PREA regulations and ICE PREA investigations.
The county's budget division page describes an annual budget adopted by the Legislature but no budget document link opened, so budget is recorded as no rather than assumed.
The Sheriff's Office policies page lists policy titles including death and serious injury notifications, but publishes no PREA policy, deaths-in-custody record or inspection report and gave no document links.
What was tried: the 2025-2026 Sheriff Report PDF, the visiting rules PDF, the county sitemap and the departments pages were all refused with 429 rate limits or returned no links.
No public roster, capacity figure, contract, bail guidance or fee schedule was found on the county domain. VINE, the only lookup linked, is a commercial service and is not counted.
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 Orange 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