The Detention Center
Wasatch County Jail
- Operated byWasatch County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Address1361 S Highway 40, Heber City, UT (Sheriff's Office address; jail is co-located with the Wasatch County Justice Center per the Corrections Division page)
- Capacity100-bed facility, designed for inmates serving less than a year
- StaffingApproximately 40 deputies in the Corrections Division
- State contract"Some inmates are housed for the State prison system in exchange for funding" — no rate or contract terms published
- Bailiff dutiesCorrections deputies provide bailiff services for the Fourth District Court, Fourth District Juvenile Court, and Wasatch County Justice Court
Source: Wasatch County Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓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 — 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 bySome inmates are housed for the State prison system "in exchange for funding" — no dollar figure or contract terms published
- Beds100
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jared Rigby
- Runs the jailYes — Wasatch County Jail, under the Sheriff's Office Corrections Division
- Association role1st Vice President, Utah Sheriffs' Association
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Wasatch County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff Rigby · 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
Justice Court
- Brook Sessions
- 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
- Inmate phones are provided by Correct Solutions (correctsolutionsgroup.com); commissary is accessed via phone cards through the same vendor, but no specific rate is published on the Sheriff's Office site, so 'fees' is marked no.
- No dedicated bail-guidance page, public roster, or jail-specific budget was located on the Sheriff's Office or county sites.
- No Utah Sheriffs' Association jail standards result for Wasatch County found published on the county's own site.
- Wasatch County Council (seven members: five geographic-region seats and two at-large seats; appoints the County Manager, who holds executive authority): Erik Rowland (Vice Chair), Colleen Bonner (Seat B, At-Large), Luke Searle (Seat A, At-Large), Kendall Crittenden (Seat D), Mark Nelson (Seat E), Michael Murphy (Seat F), Spencer Park (Seat G).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Wasatch 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