The Detention Center
Duchesne County Jail
- Operated byDuchesne County Sheriff's Office
- Address21554 West 9000 South, Duchesne, Utah 84021
- Beds166-bed facility
- Who it holdsHouses county and state inmates, per county site
- Court securityDeputies provide bailiff/court security for the 8th District Court and West Justice Courts
- ProgrammingPre-Trial Monitoring Program as an alternative to incarceration
Source: Duchesne County Jail Information · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- Beds166
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Travis L. Tucker
- Runs the jailYes — Duchesne County Jail
- How the office is filledElected; elected 2019 as the 15th Duchesne County Sheriff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Duchesne County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah judges are appointed by the Governor through a nominating commission, then face retention election. They are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Eighth District Court — Presiding Judge
- Samuel P. Chiara
Duchesne County Justice Court
- E. Jed Labrum
- 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
- County site states the jail houses both county and state inmates, indicating an Inmate Placement Program-type arrangement, but no rate/contract figures are published.
- Three-member elected Board of Duchesne County Commissioners: Traci Killian (Seat A), Greg Miles (Seat B), Jeff Chugg (Seat C).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Duchesne 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