Gray County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byGray County Sheriff's Office
• Jail staffing/bedsNot published on the Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile (fields blank)
• What was triedgrayco.org's own Sheriff link (/sheriff) redirects off the county's domain to graycosheriff.org, a separate site that this session could not open (provenance refused) and which is not the county's own domain in any case, so it could not be used for any check. grayco.org's District Court page (tabid/3913) returned a 404. No jail name, roster, budget, PREA result, inspection result, contract, bond guidance, or fee schedule was found on grayco.org itself.

Source: K.S.A. 19-811 — Sheriff; charge and custody of jail and prisoners · 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 Gray 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 Jeff Sharp

• Runs the jailYes — K.S.A. 19-811 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and its prisoners
• Office address300 South Main, Cimarron, KS 67835
• Phone(620) 855-3916

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Gray 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). Gray County sits in the 16th Judicial District with Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa and Meade counties; its own district magistrate judge is Anthony Bayer. The 16th 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 →