Butler County

The Detention Center

Butler County Adult Detention Facility

• Operated byButler County Sheriff's Office
• Detention commandLarry Reynolds — Administrator, Butler County Adult Detention Facility
• Jail address701 South Stone Road, El Dorado, KS 67042
• Rated capacity230 beds
• Daily populationNot published — the county publishes the bed count but not how many people are held
• Who else it holdsThe county's own page states the facility houses inmates from the "US Marshal Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and various other outside law enforcement agencies." No per-day rate or contract is published.
• Commissary limit$96.00 per order period regardless of the number of friends and family purchasing
• Message rates$0.25 per inmate message; $0.35 per picture or document, through NCIC
• PREA auditsThree final audit reports published on the county's own site — August 2016, August 2019, September 2022
• RosterThe Offenders & Warrants page carries warrants and a most-wanted list only. Registered-offender search goes to icrimewatch.net, a third-party site, so it is not the county publishing who is in custody.

Source: Butler County Sheriff's Office — Detention Division · checked 2026-09-17

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✓PREA audits
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Butler County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-17. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year builtNot found
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• Beds230

The Sheriff

Sheriff Monty Hughey

• Runs the jailYes — the elected sheriff is the statutory keeper of the jail under K.S.A. 19-811

Source: Butler County Sheriff's Office (the county's own sheriff domain) · checked 2026-09-17

The Judges

Kansas decides judicial selection district by district (Kan. Const. Art. 3 §6; K.S.A. 20-2901): partisan election is the default, and a judicial district's voters may adopt — or later reject — nonpartisan/merit selection by petition and ballot proposition. Which of Kansas's 31 judicial districts covers Butler County, and whether that district has adopted nonpartisan selection or still elects its district judges, was not established this session: the county's own site does not carry it, and the session's WebSearch budget (8 calls, spent locating county domains and sheriff/jail profiles) was exhausted before a district-specific source could be checked. In a district that has not adopted nonpartisan selection, K.S.A. 20-336 has that district's counties each elect their own district magistrate judge, and in most rural Kansas counties the magistrate — not the district judge — sets bail at first appearance (K.S.A. 20-302b). Which method this county's judicial district uses was not established for this record.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-17

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