The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byMillard County Sheriff's Office
- Justice Complex address (per county site)765 S Hwy 99, Fillmore, UT 84631 — listed as the Sheriff's Office location alongside the Attorney and Clerk offices
- Jail visiting rulesThe Sheriff's Office site (millardsheriff.org) publishes an 'Information' section including 'Jail Visiting Rules,' confirming a jail is operated, but the facility's formal name, address, and bed count were not found
- What was triedmillardcounty.org would not load over a direct connection during this research (repeated TLS/connection resets); millardsheriff.org returned 'down for maintenance' live and its Wayback Machine captures of interior pages (jail-visiting-rules, information) repeatedly failed to load or returned bot-check stubs, so no jail name, address, beds, or cost could be confirmed
Source: Millard County Sheriff's Office — Home (Wayback Machine capture, May 1, 2025) · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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 Richard Jacobson
- Runs the jailYes — Millard County Sheriff's Office (jail visiting-rules page published on the Sheriff's Office site)
- 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: Millard County — County Sheriff (Wayback Machine capture, Dec. 6, 2024) · 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. The Fourth Judicial District covers Juab, Millard, Utah, and Wasatch Counties.
Fourth District Court — Presiding Judge
- Sean M. Petersen
Millard County Justice Court
- Cyndee Probert
- 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
- millardcounty.org (the county's primary domain) could not be reached live during this research despite repeated attempts (TLS connection resets); findings for Millard County rely on Wayback Machine captures of that site plus the separate millardsheriff.org domain, both cited with capture dates. This is a materially weaker source base than for the group's other counties, and several fields that a live site likely publishes (jail name/address, commission members) could not be confirmed.
- Internet Archive's own service was intermittently unavailable (503 errors) during multiple retrieval attempts, further limiting what could be confirmed.
- Millard County is governed by an elected County Commission (per the county site's navigation structure); specific current commissioner names could not be confirmed because the commission page would not load, live or via Wayback Machine, during this research.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Millard 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