The Detention Center
Salt Lake County Jail (Metro Jail and Oxbow Jail)
- Operated bySalt Lake County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Bureau
- Metro Jail address3415 South 900 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119 (also given as 3365 South 900 West for the Sheriff's Office bail-payment location)
- Two facilitiesThe Sheriff's Office names both a 'Metro Jail' and an 'Oxbow Jail'; commissary/bail payments for both are made at the Metro Jail location only
- Corrections structureOrganized into Jail Processing, Jail Security, Jail Services, Jail Support, and Jail Housing divisions
- Population dashboardA Power BI 'Jail Dashboard,' developed with the Criminal Justice Advisory Council, is embedded on the county's Jail page and is described as providing a daily snapshot of the jail population's demographics, booking agency, and length of stay; the live dashboard content itself could not be read (JavaScript-rendered), so no specific population or bed-capacity figure could be independently confirmed
- What was triedslco.org/sheriff/corrections/ and its subpages (jail, rosters, prea, deposit, pay, rules, ice-dashboard) checked for beds, year built, and cost — none published
Source: Salt Lake County Sheriff — Corrections Bureau · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- ✗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 (county publishes a live Jail Population Dashboard describing current-population demographics; no rated bed-capacity figure was found in accessible page text, and the dashboard's own numbers could not be read)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Rosie Rivera
- Runs the jailYes — oversees the largest jail and Court Security Bureau in the state of Utah
- How the office is filledElected; sworn in August 15, 2017, as the first female sheriff elected in the State of Utah
- Corrections leadershipChief Deputy Matt Dumont and Deputy Chief Shanda Gonzalez head the Corrections Bureau
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Salt Lake County Sheriff — Rosie Rivera · 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 Third Judicial District covers Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele Counties; the list above is the full published roster of district judges for the whole district, not Salt Lake County alone, and no single judge is designated for Salt Lake County specifically beyond the district's presiding judge.
Third District Court — Presiding Judge
- Adam T. Mow
Third District Court — Judges (serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele Counties)
- Matthew Bates
- James T. Blanch
- Heather Brereton
- Patrick W. Corum
- Richard Daynes
- Robert P. Faust
- Joel Ferre
- James D. Gardner
- Dianna Gibson
- Todd Hilbig
- Douglas Hogan
- Elizabeth A. Hruby-Mills
- Kristine E. Johnson
- Linda M. Jones
- Chelsea Koch
- Barry G. Lawrence
- Thaddeus May
- Amber M. Mettler
- Amanda Montague
- Adam T. Mow
- Richard E. Mrazik
- Stephen Nelson
- Richard Pehrson
- Kara L. Pettit
- Coral Sanchez
- Laura Scott
- Todd Shaughnessy
- Randall Skanchy
- Charles Stormont
- Vernice Trease
- Teresa L. Welch
- Derek Williams
- 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
- Capacity check credited based on the county's own description of its published Jail Population Dashboard (updated daily, covering demographics, booking agency, and length of stay); the dashboard is a JavaScript-embedded Power BI report whose actual figures could not be read directly, so this is scored on the strength of the county's description of what it publishes, not a specific number verified here.
- PREA check scored 'no': the county publishes a PREA policy document and an incident-reporting form, but no PREA audit results.
- An ICE Dashboard is also published, disclosing interactions between the jail and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the county states it does not participate in the federal 287(g) program; no contract or per-diem rate figures were found for holding other agencies' prisoners generally.
- Fees check scored 'no': the Deposit Money page explains commissary/phone account mechanics (including that up to 50% of new deposits may be applied to balances owed) but does not publish specific per-minute phone or per-visit video rates.
- Salt Lake County has an optional Mayor-Council form of government, not a Board of County Commissioners. The nine-member County Council is the legislative body: three at-large members (six-year terms) and six district members (four-year terms). It adopts the budget, enacts ordinances, and authorizes intergovernmental agreements.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Salt Lake 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