1347 E. Townsend
Road
St. Johns, MI 48879
PH:(989)224-5200
FAX:(989)227-0461
sheriff@clinton-county.org
The County Jail is operated by the Sheriff's Department. The mission
of the Sheriff's Department in regard to the Jail is to provide for
the effective and efficient operation of a secure and humane correctional
facility.
Many inmates are County residents, yet a number of the inmates are
boarders which are received from the federal, state, and other county
governments, which offsets Clinton County's debt and operating cost
of the jail. The jail, which was built in 1991, has a design rated
capacity of 178 inmates, while the old jail held only 42 prisoners.
Since the County was paying other counties to board prisoners and
was continually overcrowded, the County Commission in 1990 decided
to build a jail which would house additional Clinton County prisoners
and allow for growth. The 1998 budget assumes a jail population at
or above the capacity level with an average of 83 county inmates per
day with the remaining bed space rented to other agencies.
