The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byCarbon County Sheriff's Office
- Department name published by the county'Sheriff/Jail', listed as a department under Commissioner Jared Haddock's oversight
- What was triedhttps://www.carbon.utah.gov/department/sheriff-jail/ was attempted twice and is disallowed by the site's robots.txt; https://www.carbon.utah.gov/departments/ and https://www.carbon.utah.gov/service/courts-and-legal/ were also attempted and returned either no department links or a robots.txt block. No facility name, address, bed count or jail commander could be sourced.
Source: Carbon County Commission · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 Jeff Wood
- Runs the jailYes — the county's own commission page lists 'Sheriff/Jail' as a single department, assigned to Commissioner Jared Haddock for oversight
- How the office is filledElected; the county lists Sheriff among its ten elected offices
- 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. Carbon County's elected-officials page lists a Justice Court Judge among the county's ten elected offices but publishes no name, and the county's courts page is blocked by robots.txt.
District Court — judicial district serving Carbon County
- Not found
Justice Court — Carbon 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
- Carbon County operates a jail — the county's own commission page carries a 'Sheriff/Jail' department in the commissioners' portfolio assignments. It is not one of the three Utah counties (Morgan, Piute, Wayne) the 2008 legislative audit found had none.
- named is marked no because the county's Sheriff/Jail page is disallowed by carbon.utah.gov's robots.txt and could not be read, so no published facility name could be confirmed. The other nine checks are recorded as no for the same reason — pages that could not be read, not pages read and found empty.
- An older commission page at https://www.carbon.utah.gov/department/commission/ lists commissioners Casey Hopes (2021-2024), Larry Jensen and Tony Martines and appears not to have been updated; the page at /?p=1200 shows Jared Haddock (2025-2028) in place of Casey Hopes and is used here as the current listing.
- 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.
- Carbon County uses the three-member county commission form of government permitted by Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 52a — the county describes the commissioners as functioning as both the legislative and administrative branches, with two seats elected together and the third two years later, each for four-year terms. Current commissioners: Jared Haddock (2025-2028), Larry Jensen (2023-2026) and Tony Martines (2023-2026). Jared Haddock holds the Sheriff/Jail portfolio. Commission office: 751 E 100 N Ste 2700, Price, UT 84501. No dedicated jail tax or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Carbon 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