The Detention Center
None found — Kiowa County publishes no detention facility of its own
- Operated byn/a
- Where prisoners appear to goThe Kiowa County Sheriff's Office site's 'Jail Info' link points to the Bent County Sheriff's Office inmate information page at bentjail.com/inmate-info/
- Sheriff's Office sitehttp://kiowasheriff.co/ — linked from the county site as the Sheriff's official site
- What was triedhttps://kiowacounty.colorado.gov/government, https://kiowacounty.colorado.gov/government/elected-officials/sheriff and http://kiowasheriff.co/ were checked; no jail, roster, capacity, bond or fee page exists
Source: Kiowa County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot applicable — no county jail found
- Original costNot applicable — no county jail found
- Paid for byNot applicable — no county jail found
- BedsNot applicable — no county jail found
Since then
- Not applicable — no county jail found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brian Williams
- Runs the jailNo county jail found — the Sheriff's Office publishes no detention facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office address1305 Goff Street, P.O. Box 427, Eads, CO 81036
- Command staff publishedUndersheriff Jacob Marlow; five deputies, one office deputy and a courthouse security officer
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kiowa County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed by the Governor from a list submitted by a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections. District and county court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county court judge normally sets bond at first appearance.
15th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Tarryn L. Johnson
15th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Tarryn L. Johnson
- Mike Davidson
Kiowa County Court Judge
- S. Dawn James
- 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
- Kiowa County is one of Colorado's smallest counties. Neither the county site nor the Sheriff's Office site describes a detention facility, and the Sheriff's Office 'Jail Info' link sends the public to the Bent County Sheriff's Office inmate information page. That is the finding, not a gap. No intergovernmental agreement or per-diem rate is published to confirm the arrangement, so contracts is recorded as no.
- budget: the county publishes annual budgets for 2004-2026 at https://kiowacounty.colorado.gov/government/elected-officials/commissioners/budgets, but the documents are hosted on Google Drive and could not be opened, and the county has no jail, so no corrections or detention appropriation was verified.
- The Colorado Division of Criminal Justice Jail Data Dashboard (https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata) is the state publishing, not Kiowa County, and does not satisfy any check.
- Board of County Commissioners — Michael Lening (District 1), Howard 'Butch' Robertson (District 2), Donald Oswald (District 3, Chairman). Offices at 1305 Goff Street, P.O. Box 100, Eads, CO 81036. The county publishes annual budgets for 2004-2026 and BOCC meeting minutes for 2015-2026. No dedicated jail or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kiowa 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