The Detention Center
Schenectady County Jail
- Operated bySchenectady County Sheriff's Office
- County's published nameSchenectady County Corrections
- Jail address320 Veeder Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12307
- VisitsTwo visits each week; up to three visitors at a time
- BailCash, check or credit card; online/remote bail through GovPayNet with a 7% service fee
- Inmate account kiosk fee$3.25 cash, $4.95 credit
Source: Schenectady County Sheriff - Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
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 Dominic Dagostino
- Runs the jailYes - the Sheriff's Office operates Schenectady County Corrections at 320 Veeder Ave.
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Schenectady 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.
Schenectady 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.
- Note15 legislators elected to four-year terms from four districts; chair Gary Hughes.
- The boardSchenectady County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's corrections page names the facility and gives its address, visiting rules, bail payment routes and inmate-account kiosk fees.
- No rated capacity, daily population or in-custody list is published on the county site.
- The 2026 adopted operating budget on the county site carries Sheriff and Jail appropriation lines under the Public Safety program.
- No PREA material, inspection report or death-in-custody record found on the county or sheriff pages opened.
- The only inmate-lookup route offered is a link out to VINE, which is not the county's own roster.
- 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 Schenectady 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