The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated bySevier County Sheriff's Office (inferred from Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22; not independently confirmed for Sevier County specifically)
- What was triedsevier.utah.gov has no dedicated Sheriff/jail department page (it links out to scsoutah.com); scsoutah.com is a React single-page app whose HTML source contains no server-rendered content — name, address, beds, and fees could not be confirmed
Source: Sevier County — Departments (Sheriff links to scsoutah.com) · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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 — 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 Nathan Curtis
- Runs the jailYes, under Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22 — statewide, the sheriff is statutory keeper of the county jail
- Sheriff's Office websiteMaintains a separate site, scsoutah.com, which is a JavaScript single-page application; its content (jail name, beds, contact info) could not be retrieved by automated fetch in this research session
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Utah Sheriffs' Association — Sheriff Directory (Sheriff Nathan Curtis, Sevier County) · 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 Sixth Judicial District covers Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, and Wayne Counties.
Sixth District Court — Presiding Judge
- Mandy Larsen
Justice Court
- Not found — no judge named on the county's Justice Court page
- 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
- The Sevier County Sheriff's Office operates its own website at scsoutah.com, built as a client-rendered JavaScript app (React/'myocv' platform) that returns an empty page shell to automated fetches; jail name, beds, roster, and fee information could not be verified from it in this session.
- sevier.utah.gov itself carries no jail/corrections content of its own — all sheriff-related links point to scsoutah.com.
- Sevier County Commission (Board of County Commissioners): Scott Johnson (Chairman), Greg Jensen, Ralph Brown. Meets at the County Administration Building, 250 N. Main St., Richfield.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sevier 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