The Detention Center
Box Elder County Correctional Facility
- Operated byBox Elder County Sheriff's Office
- AddressPO Box 888, Brigham City, UT 84302-0888; Sheriff's Office at 52 S 1000 W, Brigham City
- Beds168 inmate beds, twenty-six of them reserved for females
- RosterThe county states the jail roster is not available online
- Bond paymentAccepted online through GovPayNow, linked from the Corrections page
- Remote visit rate$0.39 per minute when accessing the inmate canteen site from outside the facility; commissary credit card transaction fee $8.95
- Year built, cost, funding, jail commanderNot found — checked /251/Corrections, /247/Sheriff, /254/Visitation, /572/Inmate-Canteen
Source: Box Elder County Corrections · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds168 total, 26 reserved for females
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kevin Potter
- Runs the jailYes — the Box Elder County Correctional Facility, a Corrections division of the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected; listed among the county's elected officials
- Office address52 S 1000 W, PO Box 888, Brigham City, UT 84302
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Box Elder County Elected Officials · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah District 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. The county's own elected-officials page lists Dustin Ericson as Justice Court Judge — Utah justice court judges serve a county or municipality and are appointed and then retained, and the county lists the office among its elected officials. No District Court judge name was published on any county page opened.
Justice Court — Box Elder County
- Dustin Ericson
District Court — judicial district serving Box Elder 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Box Elder County operates a jail; it is not one of the three Utah counties (Morgan, Piute, Wayne) the 2008 legislative audit found had none.
- capacity is marked yes for beds only. The county publishes 168 beds but does not publish a daily population figure.
- roster is marked no because the county states plainly that the jail roster is not available online; it links to VINELink, a third-party service that does not count as county publication.
- budget is marked yes: the county's own Budgets page carries the Approved Budget 2026, Approved Capital Projects 2026, Approved Budget 2025 and a 2025 budget amendment as PDFs on the county domain. The county also links a ClearGov-hosted budget book from its Transparency page, but that is a vendor site and is not relied on here.
- fees is marked yes for the $0.39 per minute remote-access rate and the $8.95 commissary card fee published on the county's Visitation page. The 2026 Consolidated Fee Schedule and the 2026 Sheriff's Fee Schedule were both opened and contain no jail or corrections fees — no booking fee, no per-diem housing rate, no phone or video rate.
- contracts is marked no: no agreement to hold another agency's prisoners, and no per-diem rate, was found on any county page opened.
- 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.
- The county publishes a page titled 'Help Us Honor Sheriff Kevin Potter'; its content was not opened, and Kevin Potter is listed as the sitting Sheriff on both the county's elected-officials page and the Utah Sheriffs' Association directory.
- No Utah Sheriffs' Association jail standards result was found published for this county, so state_inspection is blank.
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners — Boyd Bingham, Lee Perry, Tyler Vincent. Box Elder uses the county commission form of government permitted by Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 52a, not a council/executive form. Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5:00 PM and the 4th Wednesday at 11:30 AM. No dedicated jail tax or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Box Elder 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