Doniphan County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byDoniphan County Sheriff's Office
• What was triedThe county's own sheriff page (dpcountyks.com/dept/sheriff/) was opened and describes the sheriff's office and its law-enforcement/dispatch role in detail, but contains no jail facility name, address, capacity, roster, budget, PREA result, inspection result, contract, bond guidance, or fee schedule. The page notes the office also maintains a separate website, doniphanso.org, but that domain was not returned by search this session and so was not opened.

Source: Doniphan County — Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-09-17

• ✗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 — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Doniphan 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 Mark Allen

• 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).
• Office address219 S. Main, PO Box 32, Troy, KS 66087
• Phone / email785-985-3711 / sheriff@doniphanso.org
• StaffingUndersheriff Brendan Wolvington; Lead Dispatcher Jennifer Schmille; Administrative Assistant Paula Shaw, per the county's own sheriff page.
• Service areaProvides law enforcement to all of Doniphan County's cities/municipalities and dispatch for multiple police and emergency agencies, per the county's own sheriff page.

Source: Doniphan County — Sheriff's Office page · 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). A Ballotpedia page specifically on Doniphan County's judicial selection method was located by search but could not be opened this session (robots.txt fetch failure), so which method the 22nd Judicial District uses, and its sitting judges, were not established. The 22nd 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 →