Cowley County

The Detention Center

Cowley County Jail

• Operated byCowley County Sheriff's Office
• Retry pass: county's real domain locatedThe domain this file previously targeted, cowleycounty.org, is a defunct/old CivicEngage site that is not the county's current official site and remained unreachable this pass too (robots.txt ConnectTimeout, and a same-URL https→http redirect loop on one page). A fresh, broader search surfaced the county's actual current domain, cowleycountyks.gov, which opened successfully this session.
• Address and capacity (per Cowley County's own site)311 E. 9th Avenue, Winfield, KS 67156-2843. Capacity 220 beds, with "core facilities built to service 400 inmates if there was a need to expand." Opened in 2008, completed 2009.
• Visitation (per Cowley County's own site)Hours 8–11 a.m., 1–4:40 p.m., 6–10 p.m. daily; in-person kiosk visits are free, remote video visits are fee-based and must be scheduled 24 hours in advance; (620) 221-5446 for visitation/account assistance.
• Communications vendor and fees (per Cowley County's own site, NCIC information sheet)NCIC Inmate Communications handles phone, video visitation and messaging via a prepaid account (account.ncic.com or 1-800-943-2189). Phone calls: $0.16/minute within the U.S., $0.25/minute to Mexico/Canada, $0.35/minute other international. Video visits: $0.30/minute. Messages: $0.25 each (text), $0.35 each (picture/video), no stated limit on quantity.
• Bond informationThe Sheriff's Office page links a "Cowley County Approved Bonding Companies" 2026 list, hosted on the county's own DocumentCenter; the PDF itself returned no machine-readable text this session, so its contents were not read, only confirmed to exist at that URL.
• Current inmate roster (per Cowley County's own site)An Archive Center titled "Sheriff/Inmate Rosters" publishes a dated PDF roster daily (Sept. 14–17, 2026 were listed when checked). One PDF opened this session, "Current Inmate Offense List, by Name," 12 pages, listing booking number, name, statute citations, offense descriptions, court designation, and felony/misdemeanor class for each inmate — no bond amounts shown.
• Administrator, PREA, inspectionsNot found on any page opened this session; the Sheriff's Office page does not name a jail administrator, and no PREA or inspection content was found.
• Annual budgetA "Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report" PDF is linked from the county's own site but returned no machine-readable text this session, so no budget figure was confirmed from it; a county-wide "Digital Budget Book" is also linked from the homepage but is hosted on a third-party platform (cleargov.com), not the county's own domain, so it cannot itself satisfy a check.

Source: Cowley County, KS — Jail & Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-17

• ✓The jail is named
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✗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
• ✓How to post bond
• ✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Cowley 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 built2008 (opened), 2009 (completed)
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• Beds220, "with core facilities built to service 400 inmates if there was a need to expand" (Cowley County's own site)

The Sheriff

Sheriff David (Dave) Falletti

• Runs the jailYes — K.S.A. 19-811 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and its prisoners; K.S.A. 19-1903 makes the sheriff responsible for the manner in which it is kept.
• How the office is filledElected countywide for a four-year term (K.S.A. 19-801a); not one of Kansas's two structural exceptions (Riley County has no sheriff; Wyandotte County's sheriff is separately elected within a consolidated government).
• Office (per Cowley County's own site)911 Fuller, Winfield, KS 67156; (620) 221-5444 / (620) 441-4555, fax (620) 221-5448; hours 8 a.m.–5 p.m. (Concealed Carry & Offender Registration 9 a.m.–3 p.m.)
• Staffing and service area (per Cowley County's own site)Patrol Division: 26 full-time and 4 part-time sworn deputies. Corrections: 22 full-time and 4 part-time officers, plus 1 full-time nurse. Administrative: 2 administrative assistants, 1 office manager. Service area: 1,128 square miles, population 36,291, 25 townships, 7 cities.
• 2024 department statistics (per Cowley County's own site)7,851 calls for service; 463 arrests; 5,190 civil process actions; 632 accidents; 322 traffic citations.

Source: Cowley County, KS — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-17

The Judges

Kansas decides judicial selection district by district under Kan. Const. Art. 3 §6 and K.S.A. 20-2901. In most rural Kansas counties the district magistrate judge sets bail (K.S.A. 20-302b). The 19th Judicial District elects its district judges on a partisan ballot - the default under Kan. Const. Art. 3 sec. 6. Its voters have not adopted the nonpartisan nominating-commission method available under K.S.A. 20-2901.

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
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →