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

The Detention Center

Wyoming County Jail

Operated byWyoming County Sheriff's Office
Jail address151 N. Main Street, Warsaw, NY 14569
Rated capacity81 men and women
OpenedCompleted and operational 6 January 1992
BailAccepted 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in exact cash or by credit card
Jail AdministratorMichael Horton, Jail Administrator

Source: Wyoming County Sheriff's Office — Jail 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 — 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 Wyoming 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 built1992
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds81

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff David P. Linder

Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Jail Division runs the Wyoming County Jail
DivisionsAdministration, Civil, Dispatch, Investigations, Jail, Patrol
Jail staffing4 shift sergeants, 28 full-time and 9 part-time correction officers

Still needed

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

Source: Wyoming 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.

Wyoming 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.
NoteBoard of Supervisors and committee agendas and minutes are in the county's agenda centre.
The boardWyoming County Board of Supervisors →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The fullest jail section in this group: the Jail Division page names the jail, gives its address, an 81-person rated capacity, the January 1992 opening date, staffing and the jail administrator's name.
Fees: the commissary deposit page publishes a $4 convenience fee for kiosk cash deposits and a $4 fee on card transactions, with a $300 daily deposit limit. The bail page says a non-refundable transaction fee applies to credit-card bail but does not give the amount; the phone page gives only the provider's number, no rates.
The county posts monthly HALT Act segregated-confinement data for 2025 and 2026 as PDFs in its own document centre.
No inmate roster, PREA material, inspection report, death-in-custody record or budget document showing the jail line was 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 Wyoming 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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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