Crawford County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byCrawford County Sheriff's Office
• Address225 N. Enterprise Drive, Girard, KS 66743; jail admin line (620) 724-8853
• Public inmate roster (linked from the county's own site)The county's own Arrest/Jail page (crawfordcountykansas.org/arrest.html) links directly to an inmate roster — both a search tool at crsojail.pittks.org and the Sheriff's Office's own site, crsoks.org/jail/inmate-roster/. Neither destination could be opened this session (see What was tried), but the county's own site does publish the link itself, which is what the check asks.
• Bond guidanceThe Arrest/Jail page does not itself explain bail/bond procedures or amounts; it refers the public to the Sheriff's Department directly or the County Clerk.
• Other resources namedKansas VINE (victim notification of inmate status) and a separate sex-offender search (sheriffalerts.com) are linked from the same page; neither is a custody roster.
• What was tried and blockedcrsoks.org's own root redirected (302) to a third-party platform, crimewatch.net, which was not followed (commercial aggregator territory, outside this project's scope); crsoks.org/jail/inmate-roster/ and crsojail.pittks.org both refused this session for lack of WebFetch provenance. crsoks.org/jail/inmate-services/ was opened and contains inmate programming/rehabilitation content only — no bond, fee, PREA or inspection information.

Source: Crawford County, KS — Arrest · checked 2026-09-17

• ✗The jail is named — not published
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✗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 — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Crawford 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
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Billy Tomasi

• 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 contact225 N Enterprise Dr / PO Box 157, Girard, KS 66743; (620) 724-8274

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — county profile · 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 11th Judicial District has adopted the nonpartisan method: a local nominating commission of lawyers and non-lawyers sends the Governor a list of names, the Governor appoints, and the judge then faces retention votes. Kansas districts choose this by ballot under K.S.A. 20-2901; partisan election is the default they opted out of.

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 →