The Detention Center
Iron County Jail
- Operated byIron County Sheriff's Office
- Address2132 N Main Street, Cedar City, UT 84721
- Fees publishedOn-site video visits are free of charge (24 hrs advance scheduling required); remote video visits are $7.00 per 15-minute visit; attorney/clergy remote visits are $12.00 per visit (promotional rates may apply)
- Account vendors namedIC Solutions (phone), Jail ATM (commissary), GettingOut (tablets) — vendor links given, but no specific phone/commissary dollar rates published on the county site
- What was triedironsheriffut.gov/jail checked for beds/year built/cost — not published
Source: Iron County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
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 Kenneth Carpenter
- Runs the jailYes — Iron County Jail
- 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: Iron County Sheriff's Office — Home · 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.
Fifth District Court Judges (no presiding judge designated on the published list)
- Meb W. Anderson
- Jack B. Burns
- Eric R. Gentry
- Jay T. Winward
- Matthew L. Bell
- Ryan E. Christiansen
- Bryan J. Pattison
Iron County Justice Court
- Judge Dunlap
- 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
- Live inmate roster table includes per-inmate bond amounts and bond types, but the county site does not separately publish a general 'how to post bail' guide, so bond_info is scored 'no'.
- Fees check is scored 'yes' on the strength of the explicitly published $7/15-min and $12 remote-visit rates; phone and commissary pages link to third-party vendors without listing dollar rates.
- Three-member elected Iron County Commission: Ken Robinson, Mike Bleak, Paul Cozzens.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Iron 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