The Detention Center
Schuyler County Jail
- Operated bySchuyler County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address106 Tenth Street, Watkins Glen, NY 14891
- Rated capacity30, across five cell blocks, one detention cell and one dormitory
- Staff19 full-time and 10 part-time corrections officers, 2 nurses, 3 part-time cooks
- VisitsTwo one-hour visits per week, scheduled by phone
- BailCash bail may be paid through GovPayNow, pay location code 5310
Source: Schuyler 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
- ✓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 — 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
- Beds30
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kevin Rumsey
- Runs the jailYes - the Sheriff's Office Corrections Division runs the Schuyler County Jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Schuyler 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.
Schuyler 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.
- NoteEight part-time legislators from eight districts, staggered four-year terms with term limits.
- The boardSchuyler County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The state list's URL redirected to an unrelated page; the county's own domain is schuylercountyny.gov and the sheriff and corrections pages opened there.
- The corrections page names the jail, gives the address and a rated capacity of 30, and sets out visiting, commissary and bail routes.
- The 2026 adopted budget on the county site shows a TOTAL SHERIFF line of $1,899,850.32 for 2026 and a separate TOTAL JAIL line.
- No in-custody list, PREA material, inspection report or death-in-custody record found on the county site.
- Commissary and phone vendors are linked but no rates are published.
- 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 Schuyler 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?
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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