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

The Detention Center

Seneca County Jail, in the Law Enforcement Center of Seneca County

Operated bySeneca County Sheriff's Office
Address on the sheriff's own site6150 State Route 96, Romulus, NY 14541
Address on the state Commission of Correction list44 W. Williams Street, Waterloo, NY 13165
Rated capacity120
BailCash or credit card, in person or remotely through GovPayNet; 8.5% non-refundable service fee
Commissary deposit fees$4.95 web or phone, $4.00 credit or cash at the kiosk
Jail AdministratorCaptain Donald Borland

Source: Seneca 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 — not published
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Seneca 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
Beds120

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Timothy J. Thompson, Jr.

Runs the jailYes - the Sheriff's Office Corrections Division runs the county jail
How the office is filledElected; the page says he was elected on 7 November 2023 and took office 1 January 2024

Still needed

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

Source: Seneca 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.

Seneca 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.
The boardSeneca County Board of Supervisors →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The state list's sheriff URL redirected to the county home page; the sheriff's own site is sheriff.senecacountyny.gov and opened cleanly.
The addresses differ: the sheriff's own corrections page gives 6150 State Route 96, Romulus, while the state Commission of Correction list gives 44 W. Williams Street, Waterloo. Both are recorded as found.
The corrections page names the jail, gives a rated capacity of 120 and names the jail administrator.
The commissary page publishes a full deposit fee schedule and the bail page publishes an 8.5% remote-payment fee.
The county posts adopted budgets back to 2015 in its archive centre, but our reader could not see a Sheriff or Jail appropriation line in the 2026 document, so budget is recorded 'no'.
No in-custody list, PREA material, inspection report or death-in-custody record found on either county or sheriff domain.
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 Seneca 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