The Detention Center
Logan County Detention Center (Logan County Jail)
- Operated byLogan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address110 N Riverview Rd, Sterling, CO 80751
- Phone970-522-2578
- 2026 jail budgetCounty Jail expenditures approved at $3,042,317 for 2026, up 14% from $2,660,800 projected for 2025; County Sheriff approved at $3,259,756
- Jail staffing26 full-time salaried positions budgeted in the 2026 jail line
- Jail cost detail publishedFood and meals $280,000; medical service agreement $296,837; inmate catastrophic insurance $5,800; prison transport services $30,000; commissary/inmate supplies $25,000
- Non-county prisoner revenue$238,484 actual 2024, $208,332 projected 2025, $75,000 approved 2026 — budgeted under 'NON COUNTY PRISONERS'
- Out-of-county custodyThe Detention Center page states out-of-county custody is available for people sentenced in another county who need to serve their sentence in Logan County; arrangements are made by contacting the jail
- Booking feeLogan County charges a $30 booking fee
- Inmate revenue linesCommissary revenue $25,000 and inmate phone revenue $17,000 approved for 2026
- VisitationAll visitation is by video; money orders are not accepted — funds go through the jail lobby kiosk or JailATM
- Bond postingBonds can be posted by QR code or at bail.cash/loganco
- Capital items budgetedJail intercom upgrade $20,000; jail recreation yard dirt work $8,000
- Beds / capacityNot published on the county site — the 2026 budget contains no bed count or average daily population
- What was triedhttps://www.logancountyco.gov/205/Detention-Center ; https://www.logancountyco.gov/203/Jail---Payment ; https://www.logancountyco.gov/194/Sheriffs-Message ; https://www.logancountyco.gov/178/Logan-County-Sheriff ; the 2026 budget PDF — no roster, capacity, PREA audit, death report or independent inspection found
Source: Logan County Sheriff — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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
- ✗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 byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found — the 2026 budget funds a jail intercom upgrade ($20,000) and jail recreation yard dirt work ($8,000), but no facility expansion is described
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brett L. Powell
- Runs the jailYes — 'The sheriff operates and is responsible for maintaining the county jail'
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Agency size52 law enforcement professionals, per the Sheriff's Message
- Office address110 N Riverview Rd, Rm 116, Sterling, CO 80751
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Logan County Sheriff — Sheriff's Message · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. County court judges normally set bail at first appearance. Logan and Kit Carson counties share the 13th Judicial District bench.
13th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Carl S. McGuire III
13th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Matthew W. E. Bradley
- Dina M. Christiansen
- Stevie M.G. Gagliano
- Robert C. James
- Kimbra L. Killin
Logan County Court — County Court Judge
- Ray Ann Brammer
Still needed
- 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
- Logan County publishes the most detailed detention budget in this group: a discrete County Jail line of $3,042,317 approved for 2026, broken down to salaries, food, medical service agreement, transport and commissary supplies, in a budget PDF on the county's own Finance Department page.
- The Detention Center page states that out-of-county custody is available for people sentenced in another county, and the budget books revenue under 'NON COUNTY PRISONERS' ($238,484 in 2024, $75,000 approved for 2026). No contract document or per-diem rate is published, so the contracts check is recorded as no.
- The county publishes a $30 booking fee and links inmate deposit vendors (JailATM, Inmate Sales) and bail.cash for bonds, but no phone, video-visit or commissary rates, so the fees check is no. Inmate phone revenue of $17,000 and commissary revenue of $25,000 appear in the budget as revenue lines, not as rates charged.
- The county posts operational notices as PDFs on the Detention Center page, including the booking and bonding process under HB-1280, the CRS legal rights related to posting money bond, and information on restrictive housing and special management inmates under HB 21-1063.
- No in-custody roster, bed capacity, PREA audit, death-in-custody report or independent inspection result was found published on the county site.
- Logan County reports jail population and inmate deaths to the state under CRS 17-26-118 (HB19-1297), published on the state Jail Data Dashboard at https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata. That is state publishing, not county publishing.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members by district: Mike Brownell (District One), Jim Yahn (District Two), Jim Santomaso (District Three). Business meetings are the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., with work sessions every Tuesday at 9:00 a.m., at the Logan County Courthouse, 315 Main Street, Sterling. Agendas, minutes and audio recordings of both business meetings and work sessions are published. No dedicated detention sales-tax levy was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Logan 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