The Detention Center
Beaver County Correctional Facility
- Operated byBeaver County Sheriff's Office
- Address2270 South Sheriff Dale E. Nelson Drive, Beaver, UT 84713 (mailing: PO Box 391, Beaver, UT 84713)
- Phone(435) 438-6497
- Commissary providerCBM Managed Services, contracted since 2017 — no rates published
- Beds, year built, cost, jail commanderNot found — https://www.beaver.utah.gov/403/Corrections was attempted more than six times and returned a robots.txt block every time
Source: Beaver County — An Inmate's Commissary Account · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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
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 Cody Black
- Runs the jailYes — the Beaver County Correctional Facility (Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22 places the county jail under the sheriff)
- How the office is filledElected
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Utah Sheriffs' Association sheriff directory · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah District Court and Justice Court judges are appointed by the Governor through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections; they are state judicial officers, not county officials. No judge name or district number could be sourced for Beaver County because beaver.utah.gov blocked automated retrieval of every page except two jail pages.
District Court — judicial district serving Beaver County
- Not found
Justice Court — Beaver County
- 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 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Notes on the record
- Beaver County operates a jail; it is not one of the three Utah counties (Morgan, Piute, Wayne) the 2008 legislative audit found had none.
- beaver.utah.gov served only two pages to automated retrieval: /437/An-Inmates-Commissary-Account and /409/Commissary. Both name the Beaver County Correctional Facility; the second confirms the commissary contractor. Every other attempt — /403/Corrections, /sitemap, /Directory/Home/DepartmentListing?DID=21, /CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=266, /m/directory — returned a robots.txt block. All ten checks except 'named' are therefore recorded as no on the basis of pages that could not be read, not on the basis of pages read and found empty.
- The county seat is recorded as Beaver but seat_source is left blank: no page that could be opened states it in those terms. The correctional facility address opened on the county domain is in Beaver, UT 84713.
- Utah Code 17-22-32 requires in-custody death reporting and the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice publishes a statewide mortality summary, but the deaths check requires publication by the county on its own site, and none was found.
- No Utah Sheriffs' Association jail standards result was found published for this county, so state_inspection is blank.
- Form of government not confirmed from a page that could be opened. A search result on the county's own domain is titled 'Beaver County Commission Work Meeting', which points to the three-member County Commission form permitted by Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 52a, but that document could not be retrieved and is therefore not cited as a source.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Beaver 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 commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered