The Detention Center
Weber County Correctional Facility (main jail) and Kiesel Facility (work release / community service)
- Operated byWeber County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address1400 Depot Drive, Ogden, Utah 84404 (Sheriff's Office / Jail line: 801-778-6700)
- Main facility size/beds148,000 sq. ft.; 888 beds (464 cell beds, 424 dorm beds); 4 pods; 15,000+ annual bookings
- Kiesel Facility300 beds; built 1983, addition built 1990; construction budget $25 million (as published)
- HistoryMain jail population moved to the 12th Street facility in August 2000; Kiesel Avenue building was then reconfigured for work release, community service inmates, and weekenders
Source: Weber County Sheriff's Office — Corrections Division · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✓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 builtKiesel Facility: 1983 (addition 1990); main 12th Street facility: inmates transferred there in August 2000
- Original costKiesel Facility construction budget: $25 million (as published)
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsMain facility: 888; Kiesel Facility: 300
Since then
- 1990 addition to Kiesel facility
- August 2000 opening of the 12th Street (main) facility
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ryan Arbon
- Runs the jailYes — the Weber County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates the Weber County Correctional Facility and the Kiesel Facility
- How the office is filledElected; took office November 2018. Utah Code Title 17 Chapter 22 places the sheriff in charge of the county jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Weber County Sheriff's Office — Meet the Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah's District Court and Justice Court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. District Court judges are appointed by the Governor through a nominating commission, then face retention election. The Second District covers Weber, Morgan, and Davis counties together; no dedicated Weber County justice court was identified on the county's own site.
Second District Court (Weber, Morgan, Davis Counties) — Judges (partial list published)
- Michael D. DiReda
- Joseph Bean
- David M. Connors
- Michael S. Edwards
- Craig Hall
- Camille L. Neider
- Cristina P. Ortega
- Reuben J. Renstrom
- Ronald G. Russell
- Jennifer L. Valencia
- David J. 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
- The 2026 Final Budget publishes an itemized 'Jail' fund (10151000) including revenue lines for 'Jail Service Charges' ($1,500,000 budgeted 2026) and 'Jail Federal Inmates' ($2,500,000 budgeted 2026), evidencing published contract revenue for holding other agencies'/federal prisoners; specific per-diem contract rates were not found.
- The PREA page publishes 2026 Staffing Plans and 2025/2026 'SV Annual Report' (Facility Reports and Audit Certifications), satisfying the PREA check; a separate Utah Sheriffs' Association jail-standards inspection result was not found.
- A 'Weber County Sheriff's Office Policy 310 — Officer-Involved Shootings and Deaths' document exists but is a procedural policy, not a published death record, so the deaths check is marked no.
- Phone/commissary providers (Securus, inmatecanteen.com) are named but no specific dollar rates are published on the county's own site.
- Weber County Commission — three-member elected Board: Gage Froerer, Sharon Bolos, James H. "Jim" Harvey.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Weber 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