The Detention Center
Geary County Detention Center
- Operated byGeary County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Detention commandMajor Dan Zoeller — Corrections Administrator, Geary County Detention Center
- Jail address826 N. Franklin Street, Junction City, KS 66441
- Rated capacity160 beds
- ExpansionBuilt for 82; expanded to hold 160 as of May 2009, per the county's own page
- Daily populationNot published
- RosterThe county publishes an inmate lookup from its own Corrections Division page; the lookup itself runs on tepswebprd.jcks.com
- FeesThe page says inmates may purchase calling cards and describes video visitation, but publishes no rates
Source: Geary County Sheriff — Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-17
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗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
- Beds160
Since then
- Expanded from 82 beds to 160, in place by May 2009
The Sheriff
Sheriff Nathan Boeckman
- Runs the jailYes — elected sheriff under K.S.A. 19-811 and 19-1903
- Office826 North Franklin St., Junction City, KS 66441; phone (785) 238-2261; jail phone (785) 762-6583, fax (785) 762-5085; office hours 7 a.m.–8 p.m. Mon–Fri
- Staffing (per Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile)29 sworn staff, 20 support staff, 43 jail staff
- Annual budget (per Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile)$5.1 million
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Geary County profile · checked 2026-09-17
The Judges
Kansas decides judicial selection district by district: Kan. Const. Art. 3 §6 makes partisan election of district judges the default, and a judicial district's voters may adopt (or later reject) nonpartisan merit selection under K.S.A. 20-2901; district magistrate judges are elected county by county under K.S.A. 20-336 unless the district uses merit selection, and in most rural counties the magistrate sets bail at first appearance (K.S.A. 20-302b). Geary County's judicial district and judges were not established this session — gearycounty.org could not be opened (see jail facts). Which method this county's judicial district uses was not established for this record.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-17
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
Notes on the record
- Opened 2026-09-17 on the sheriff's own domain, gearycountysheriff.gov, after gearycounty.gov refused every attempt.
- The county names its jail, publishes bed capacity and an inmate lookup, but no budget, deaths, PREA, inspection, contracts, bond guidance or fee rates.
- Kansas counties are governed by a Board of County Commissioners (K.S.A. 19-201). Geary County's own Agenda Center lists a Commissioners section, but the page could not be opened this session (see jail facts).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Geary 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 2026-09-17 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered