The Detention Center
Warren County Correctional Facility
- Operated byWarren County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1400 State Route 9, Lake George, NY 12845
- Rated capacity186 beds
- Year built2004
- Average daily population93
- Admissions705 in the past year
- SupervisorsCorrection Lieutenants Daniel T. Clifford and Wayne R. Farmer
- Jail AdministratorAlbert L. Maday, Correction Captain
Source: Warren County Sheriff — Corrections Division · 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 built2004
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds186
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jim LaFarr
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Warren County Correctional Facility
- Corrections staffingAbout 100 sworn and civilian staff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Warren 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.
Warren 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.
- NoteTwenty supervisors from eleven towns and the City of Glens Falls; minutes, agendas and resolutions are in the county's searchable file manager.
- The boardWarren County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Corrections Division page names the facility and publishes its 186-bed rated capacity, an average daily population of 93 and 705 admissions in the past year.
- Bail: the page states cash and credit card are the only accepted forms of payment; no fee rate is given, and no phone or commissary rates are published.
- The county posts monthly HALT Act segregated-confinement data for 2023 through 2026 on its own domain (warrencountyny.gov/CorrectionsHalt2026 and earlier years).
- Budget: the adopted 2026 county budget on the county site carries a "Sheriff Correction Division" appropriation (account A.3150) alongside Sheriff Law Enforcement (A.3110).
- No inmate roster, PREA material, inspection report or death-in-custody record was found on the county site; the arrests page lists recent arrests, not people currently in custody.
- 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 Warren 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