Chesterfield County, South Carolina — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Chesterfield County Detention Center (CCDC)

Operated bySheriff's Office
Jail address319 Goodale Road, Chesterfield, SC 29709
Detention center phone(843) 623-3385
AdministrationChesterfield County Sheriff's Office, 203 Watson Street, Chesterfield, SC 29709
Online in-custody portalSouthern Software Citizen Connect portal for Chesterfield County Detention Center shows an Inmate Confinements / current bookings search
Jail AdministratorTroy Ellerbe, Detention Center (sheriff's staff directory)

Source: Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office - Booking Records Requests · checked 2026-09-29

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗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 — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Chesterfield County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-29. 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Cambo Streater

CurrentNamed as Sheriff on the sheriff's own home page and staff directory
Directory spellingSouth Carolina Sheriffs' Association directory lists him as Campbell Streater
In office since2023 (sheriff's History & Mission page)
Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's booking records page lists the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office as administration for the detention center, and its staff directory lists the detention center director

Still needed

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

Source: Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office - Staff Directory · checked 2026-09-29

The Judges

South Carolina's circuit court judges are elected by the General Assembly and hear felony cases. For most charges a magistrate sets bond soon after arrest; for offenses punishable by death or life imprisonment only a circuit judge can.

Who sets bail in Chesterfield County

Circuit Court: South Carolina's Fourth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Marlboro, Darlington and Dillon. Circuit judges are elected by the General Assembly to six-year terms and hear felony cases; for offenses punishable by death or life imprisonment only a circuit judge can set bond.
Magistrate Court: the Chesterfield County magistrates. For most charges a magistrate sets bond soon after arrest.

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 2026-09-29

The County Council

They pay for the jail. Depending on the county, the sheriff or a county detention department runs it.

What they controlThe county budget that funds the detention center and the sheriff's office, and the jail building itself. In counties where the sheriff has handed the jail to the county, the council's administrator runs it.
What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff keeps the jail (S.C. Code 24-5-10). The state Department of Corrections inspects every detention center each year (S.C. Code 24-9-20).
The boardChesterfield County Council →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

Examined: the sheriff's home, booking records, staff directory, history and contact pages, and the county's home, departments, finance, budget-documents and agendas pages opened.
The sheriff's booking records page names the Chesterfield County Detention Center (CCDC), 319 Goodale Road.
Roster: the Southern Software Citizen Connect portal (AgencyID=ChesterfieldCoDetCtr) is the Chesterfield County Detention Center's own agency portal with an Inmate Confinements / current bookings search; the sheriff's site pages we read do not link it. Its records load dynamically and our reader saw only the search interface.
Budget: the county posts approved budgets back to 2016-17 at https://www.chesterfieldcountysc.com/budget-documents, but the 2026-27 and 2025-26 PDFs had no machine-readable text, so no jail or sheriff line could be read; scored no.
The county's departments page lists the Sheriff's Office but no separate detention center department.
No capacity, PREA, bond, fee, contract, inspection or deaths material was found on the sheriff or county pages read.
State inspection/oversight: The South Carolina Department of Corrections must inspect every county detention center each year and send written reports to county officials (S.C. Code 24-9-20). A county earns the inspections mark here only if it posts such a report on its own site.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Chesterfield 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 is elected. So are the county council members who pay for the jail.

Names verified 2026-09-29 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered