The Detention Center
Cache County Jail
- Operated byCache County Sheriff's Office
- Address1225 W. 200 N. (Valley View), Suite 100, Logan, UT 84321
- Moved into current buildingMay 2004, when the Sheriff's Office and Jail moved into a new Sheriff's Complex at 1225 West Valley View
- Predecessor facilityThe Old Rock Jail was used from 1887 to the early 1960s
- Jail contacts namedLieutenant Candice Hatch and Lieutenant Michael Gates
- Bond paymentAccepted online through GovPayNet, linked from the jail page
- Beds, daily population, cost, fundingNot found — checked /sheriffs-office/, /sheriffs-office/jail/ and /sheriffs-office/about-us/
Source: Cache County Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtThe Sheriff's Office and Jail moved into a new Sheriff's Complex at 1225 West Valley View in May 2004
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff D. Chad Jensen
- Runs the jailYes — the Cache County Jail (Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22 places the county jail under the sheriff)
- How the office is filledElected
- In office sinceSworn in as the twentieth Sheriff of Cache County on January 5, 2015
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cache County Sheriff's Office — About Us · 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. The county's courts page identifies the First District Court at 135 N 100 W and lists the municipal justice courts operating in the county, but publishes no judge names.
- 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
- Cache County operates a jail; it is not one of the three Utah counties (Morgan, Piute, Wayne) the 2008 legislative audit found had none.
- roster is marked no. The jail page links to a Who's In Jail lookup on the sheriff's own team.cachesheriff.org host, but the page carries the text 'THIS PAGE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE', so no roster is actually being published.
- budget is marked yes: the county Finance department publishes adopted budgets on its own domain going back to 2005, most recently the 2025 Adopted Budget. Whether a corrections appropriation is broken out inside the PDFs was not verified.
- fees is marked no. The jail page states that remote visiting fees apply but publishes no dollar amounts, and directs users to third-party vendors JailATM and NCIC for pricing.
- prea is marked no: the jail page links out to the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance PREA overview, which is not a county-published audit result.
- 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.
- Cache County uses the council/executive form of government, not a county commission: an elected County Executive who is 'the chief executive officer of the county' and 'elected at large' — currently N. George Daines — together with a seven-member County Council: Sandi Goodlander (Chair), Kathryn Beus (Vice Chair), Keegan Garrity, JoAnn Bennett, David Erickson, Mark Hurd and Nolan P. Gunnell. The county also runs a Form of Government Study committee. No dedicated jail tax or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cache 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