Tooele County, Utah — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Tooele County Detention Center

Operated byTooele County Sheriff's Office
Address1960 S. Main, Tooele, UT 84074 (Sheriff's Office main address)
Size72,000 sq. ft. total
Beds280 total — 217 in the men's pod, 60 in the women's pod, plus a medical pod
CommanderLt. Darin Durfey
NoteCounty government site co.tooele.ut.us returned repeated server errors (HTTP 503) throughout this research session and could not be reached; jail-specific budget, year built, and construction cost could not be located on the Sheriff's Office site either

Source: Tooele County Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · checked 2026-08-24

Transparency rating

5/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✗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
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Tooele County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds280 (217 men's pod, 60 women's pod, plus a separate medical pod); 72,000 sq. ft. total

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Paul Wimmer

Runs the jailYes — Tooele County Detention Center, under the Sheriff's Office Corrections Division
Confirmed onTooele County Sheriff's Office site and Utah Sheriffs' Association directory

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Tooele County Sheriff's Office · 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.

Third District Court — Presiding Judge

Adam T. Mow

Justice Court

Not found — only a phone number is published; no judge named

Still needed

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 →

Notes on the record

Remote video visits are $0.21/minute; commissary orders are capped at $40; phone provider is IC Solutions — all published on the Sheriff's Rules and Information page.
Inmate Roster page explicitly disclaims official/legal status but is published and searchable by the public.
Pay a Fine or Bail section gives clear guidance: cash bail accepted at the jail; cash-only warrants require certified check or cash; bondable warrants may use a bail bond company (jail does not recommend one).
County government site (co.tooele.ut.us) was unreachable (HTTP 503) throughout this session, so commissioners, general county budget, and county seat could not be confirmed from the county's own primary site; seat and Sheriff's Office address are both sourced to the Sheriff's Office site instead.
Not found — Tooele County's government website (http://co.tooele.ut.us and https://www.co.tooele.ut.us) returned HTTP 503 upstream errors on every attempt during this research session, so the county's own commission/council roster, board page, and minutes page could not be verified.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Tooele 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