The Detention Center
Putnam County Correctional Facility
- Operated byPutnam County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address3 County Center, Carmel, NY 10512
- Corrections Division phone845-225-5255
- Rated capacityNot found on the county's or sheriff's own pages
Source: Putnam County Sheriff - jail visitation information · 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
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 Brian M. Hess
- Runs the jailYes - the Putnam County Correctional Facility is run by the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (NY County Law art. 17)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Putnam 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.
Putnam 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.
- NotePutnam County has both a County Executive and a County Legislature; the county's published offices are at 40 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel.
- The boardPutnam County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Sheriff's site publishes a full PREA page stating a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse and harassment, listing reporting channels, and linking a PREA annual report.
- It also publishes HALT Act information and a use-of-force page.
- The county publishes full budget reports on its own finance page, but the adopted and tentative budget reports our reader opened were truncated inside the Personnel department and the two budget summaries carry only fund totals, so the sheriff or jail line could not be confirmed - budget recorded as no rather than assumed.
- No capacity figure, roster, deaths record, inspection copy, contract, bail guidance or fee rate was found on the county's or the sheriff's own site.
- 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 Putnam 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