Graham County

The Detention Center

Graham County Jail

• Operated byGraham County Sheriff's Office
• Capacity"The Graham County Jail has a 14 Bed Capacity"
• Inter-county contracts"Graham County holds prisoners by contract with the other counties across the state" — the county's own jail-information page states Graham houses other counties' inmates under contract, without giving a per-diem rate or naming the partner counties
• Staffing / operations24-hour staff monitoring; visitation Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-3:30 p.m., with age and criminal-history restrictions; inmates may receive money orders but not packages
• What was triedgrahamcountyks.com had previously been recorded as sitting behind a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge and was not attempted on the first pass. On this retry the same domain's Sheriff's Department and Jail Information pages opened without any challenge, suggesting the earlier block was transient or page-specific rather than site-wide.

Source: Graham County, KS — Jail Information · 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 — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Graham 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
• Beds14

The Sheriff

Sheriff Les Burton

• Runs the jailYes — elected sheriff under K.S.A. 19-811 and 19-1903
• Office410 North Pomeroy, Hill City, KS 67642; phone (785) 421-2107, fax 785-421-2891
• Staff listedUndersheriff Bob Garrison; one Deputy position; Matron/Head Dispatcher Cindy Hall

Source: Graham County, KS — Sheriff's Department · 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). Graham County's own Departments page (grahamcountyks.com/departments) does not list a District Court department, and no judge name or district number was established this session. 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 →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →