Past Somerset County Jail is currently looking for information reference the county jail in Somerset to include the history of the Women's Reformatory.  If you have information on this history please contact:  Sean Maguire at the jail, 474-7409 ext. 2004.
Present Somerset County Jail is a "Direct Supervision" jail capable of housing male and female:  pre-arraingment and convicted inmates in the following classification categories:  Special Management, Medium, Minimum, Work Release and Trustees.  The facility is manned by approximately 60 staff split among 2 shifts working 24x7.  The facility has a rated capacity of 234 persons.  The facility was certified by Department of Corrections on October 29, 2008.  The jail population was moved in under 6 hours without incident on October 30, 2008 and the old jail was closed at midnight on October 31, 2008.