The Detention Center
Rensselaer County Correctional Facility
- Operated byRensselaer County Sheriff's Office, Bureau of Corrections
- Jail address4000 Main Street, Troy, NY 12180 (NYS Commission of Correction list; the same address is the map link on the county's Sheriff page)
- Rated capacity473, across 12 housing units
Source: Rensselaer County Sheriff - Bureau of Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- Beds473
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kyle Bourgault
- Runs the jailYes - the Rensselaer County Correctional Facility is run by the Sheriff's Office Bureau of Corrections
- 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: Rensselaer County Sheriff · 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.
Rensselaer 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.
- NoteRensselaer County has both a County Executive and a County Legislature. The Legislature's own site (rensselaercounty.org) refused our reader, so no agenda or minutes URL is recorded.
- The boardRensselaer County Legislature
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The supplied URL (rensco.com/315/Sheriff) 404s; the Sheriff's pages are at rensco.com/325/Sheriff, reached from the county's Government index.
- The Bureau of Corrections page names the facility and gives a capacity of 473 across 12 housing units.
- The county publishes a PREA page for the correctional facility stating a zero-tolerance approach to sexual assault and abuse; it carries the policy statement but no audit findings.
- The county also publishes a Visitation Guidelines 2026 document, a minor visitation consent form, an inmate allowable property and accounts page, and HALT reporting data for the facility.
- Budget documents are listed on the county budget page, but every budget archive link returned a server error to our reader, so the sheriff or jail line could not be confirmed - budget recorded as no.
- No page we opened on the county's own site names the county seat; the county office building address published on the county site is 99 Troy Road, East Greenbush, which is not the seat, so seat is recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
- No roster, deaths record, inspection copy, contract, bail guidance or jail fee rate was found on the county'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 Rensselaer 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