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

The Detention Center

Wayne County Jail

Operated byNot found
Jail address7368 Route 31, Lyons, NY 14489 (NYS Commission of Correction facility list)
County publicationNo county or sheriff page we opened names or describes the jail

Source: Wayne County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

Not scored. Wayne County's and its sheriff's own websites could not be reached or read in the session that produced this record, so their disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.

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 Robert Milby

Runs the jailNot stated on any county page we could open; the NYS Commission of Correction lists a Wayne County Jail at the sheriff's Lyons address
Office address7376 Route 31, Suite 1000, Lyons, NY 14489

Still needed

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

Source: Wayne 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.

Wayne 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.
NoteAgendas and minutes are posted at waynecountyny.gov/129/Agendas-Minutes; that page errored for our reader.
The boardWayne County Board of Supervisors
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

A genuinely thin county. The county's own Sheriff's Office page is a contact card: name, address, phone and links out to the sheriff's own site and Facebook. It carries no jail, inmate, visitation, bail or commissary pages.
The sheriff's own site (waynecosheriff.org) opened at its root and mentions sex offender listings, missing persons, warrants and community programs, but says nothing about the jail; its sub-pages were refused to our reader by robots rules.
The county departments index lists no corrections or jail department, and the treasurer's page publishes tax data rather than the county budget.
The facility name and address come from the NYS Commission of Correction list, not from a county page, so the "named" check is "no": the county itself does not name its jail anywhere we could open.
Not scored: Only a county sheriff contact card and the sheriff site's root opened; the sheriff site's sub-pages were refused by robots, so nothing with jail content was ever read. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked.
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 Wayne 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).

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Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered