The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- No dedicated jail pageMorgan County's own site lists a Sheriff Dept page but no Jail page in its navigation; no jail is named, and no statement of where Morgan County's prisoners are held was found
- Sheriff's Office address (per county site)48 West Young Street, P.O. Box 886, Morgan, Utah 84050
- What was triedmorgancountyutah.gov homepage and /sheriff-dept page checked; no 'jail,' 'housed,' 'contract,' 'Davis County,' or 'Weber County' language found anywhere on those pages. A 2008 Utah legislative audit found Morgan County had no jail at that time, per the state brief for this project; this research could not independently confirm current arrangements from the county's own site
Source: Morgan County — Sheriff Dept · 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 Not found
- Runs the jailNo jail found published on the county's own site — see jail entry below
- How the office is filledElected (Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22 places the sheriff in charge of any county jail)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Morgan County — Sheriff Dept · 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 Second Judicial District covers Davis, Morgan, and Weber Counties.
Second District Court — Presiding Judge
- Ronald G. Russell
Morgan County Justice Court
- 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- No jail is named or described on Morgan County's own site, consistent with the 2008 Utah legislative audit finding that Morgan County operated no jail; this research could not confirm where Morgan County's prisoners are currently held because no statement to that effect appears on the county's site.
- Morgan County's website is built on a JavaScript-heavy site builder (Duda) whose page content largely does not render as static HTML text, which limited what could be extracted even where content likely exists (e.g., commissioner names, financial statements).
- Morgan County's own site labels its governing body 'County Commission' in its navigation, though the page's URL retains an older 'county-council' slug. Individual current commissioner names could not be confirmed — the page content did not render as static text (JavaScript-driven site builder).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Morgan 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