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

The Detention Center

Steuben County Jail

Operated bySteuben County Sheriff's Office
Jail address on the state Commission of Correction list7007 Rumsey Street Extension, Bath, NY 14810
Address given on the county jail pagePublic Safety Building, 3 East Pulteney Square, Bath, NY 14810
Rated capacity262
DesignDirect supervision, seven housing units - six male, one female
BailCash bail online or by phone through GovPayNet; 7% service fee, $5 minimum

Source: Steuben County Jail · 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 Steuben 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
Beds262

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff James L. Allard

Runs the jailYes - the Sheriff's Office Corrections Division runs the Steuben County Jail
How the office is filledElected; the county page calls him the fifty-ninth Sheriff of Steuben County

Still needed

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

Source: Steuben 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.

Steuben 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 boardSteuben County Legislature →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The URL supplied by the state list, steubencony.org, is no longer the county's site - it now returns gambling content. The county's own domain is steubencountyny.gov and every finding here comes from there.
The jail page names the facility, gives a maximum capacity of 262 and describes a direct-supervision design; the bail page publishes the 7% GovPayNet fee with a $5 minimum.
The county posts monthly segregated-confinement reporting for the jail at steubencountyny.gov/672/Monthly-Segregated-Confinement-Reporting.
Adopted budgets from 2016 to 2026 are listed in the county's archive centre, but every archive document URL returned a server error to our reader, so budget is recorded 'no'.
No in-custody list, PREA material, inspection report or death-in-custody record found on the county 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 Steuben 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