The Detention Center
Not found — no jail or detention facility is named on the county's own site
- Operated byNot found
- County statementThe Sheriff Bonding Policy refers only to a defendant being "housed in Sedgwick County or in another County" — no facility is named
- What was triedhttps://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/, https://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/elected-officials/sheriff, https://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/departments and https://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/sheriff-bonding-policy — the county lists no jail, detention or corrections department
Source: Sedgwick County Sheriff Bonding Policy · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 Sheriff
Sheriff Koby Quayle
- Runs the jailNo county jail is named anywhere on the county's own site
- Where prisoners goThe county's own bonding policy says a defendant may be "housed in Sedgwick County or in another County" without naming a facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff — the county's page records him as elected in November 2024
- Office address315 Cedar St Ste 320, Julesburg, CO 80737
- UndersheriffPhil Biersdorfer
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sedgwick County Sheriff · 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.
13th Judicial District Court — Chief Judge
- Carl S. McGuire III
13th Judicial District Court — District Judges
- Matthew W. E. Bradley
- Dina M. Christiansen
- Stevie M. G. Gagliano
- Robert C. James
- Kimbra L. Killin
Sedgwick County Court
- Myka M. Landry
- 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
- Sedgwick County is one of Colorado's smallest counties. Its own site names no jail and lists no detention or corrections department. The Sheriff Bonding Policy allows only that a defendant may be housed 'in Sedgwick County or in another County'; the county does not say which county, so where its prisoners go could not be established from a county source and is recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
- The bonding policy does give real, usable guidance on posting bond — cash bond accepted in person at the sheriff's office or at the facility housing the defendant, or by credit card through the website, with release within six hours — so bond_info is recorded yes.
- The published Sheriff's Office Fee Schedule at https://sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov/sheriffs-office-fee-schedule was not opened and is in any case a civil-process fee schedule, not inmate phone, video visit or commissary rates, so fees is recorded no.
- No county budget page was found in the county's departments listing.
- The state Jail Data Dashboard at https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata is a state publication under CRS 17-26-118 and does not count as the county publishing.
- Board of County Commissioners. The county posts a weekly commissioners' agenda with a live meeting link and publishes meeting minutes by year (2026, 2025 and an archive). No dedicated jail tax found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sedgwick 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