The Detention Center
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- Operated byGreeley County Sheriff's Office
- Signal on jail sizeThe Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile lists a jail capacity of 3 beds for Greeley County — small but not zero, so this is not one of the roughly 11 Kansas counties that contract out entirely under K.S.A. 19-1929
- What was triedgreeleycounty.org could not be opened at all this session: every page (sheriff/, board-of-supervisors/, sheriffs-frequently-asked-questions/, duties-of-the-board-of-supervisors/, district-court/) triggered an https-to-http redirect that the fetch tool would not follow, or a proxy timeout, regardless of whether the URL was requested as http or https. A WebSearch of the domain did return page titles including 'Board of Supervisors – Greeley County, Kansas' and 'Duties of the Board of Supervisors – Greeley County, Kansas', suggesting the county calls its governing body a Board of Supervisors, but since the pages themselves could not be opened this is reported as an unconfirmed signal, not a sourced fact.
Source: K.S.A. 19-811 — Sheriff; charge and custody of jail and prisoners · checked 2026-09-17
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗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
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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jessica McDaniel-Brown
- Runs the jailYes — K.S.A. 19-811 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and its prisoners
- Office address208 East Harper, Tribune, KS 67879
- Phone(620) 376-4233
- Staffing (KSA profile)Sworn 4, Support 6, Jail capacity 3 beds
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Greeley 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). Greeley County sits in the 25th Judicial District with Finney, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott and Wichita counties; its own district magistrate judge is Wade Dixon. The 25th 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.
District Court — 25th Judicial District
- Kristi Cott (Chief Judge)
- Richard Marquez (District Judge, Finney County)
- Christopher Sanders (District Judge, Finney County)
- Rebecca Faurot (District Judge, Scott County)
- Wade Dixon (District Magistrate Judge, Greeley County)
- 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
- greeleycounty.org could not be opened at all this session — every page attempted produced an unresolvable https/http redirect loop or a proxy timeout. None of the ten checks could be verified; recorded 'no' rather than guessed. This is a research gap, not a finding that the county discloses nothing.
- State-layer finding (plains_states.json, KS): K.S.A. 75-5228, the 1973 Kansas jail inspection statute, was repealed effective April 11, 1996; its companion K.S.A. 75-5227 was repealed effective July 1, 1996. Nothing has replaced them — the Kansas Department of Corrections runs no county-jail program and the Kansas Sheriffs' Association runs no jail standards or inspection program. No Kansas agency has had authority to inspect an adult county jail since 1996. (https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_052_0028.html ; https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_052_0027.html)
- Wikipedia — Greeley County, Kansas (unified government with the City of Tribune, effective Jan. 1, 2009): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeley_County,_Kansas
- Wikipedia's Greeley County article states that, effective January 1, 2009, Greeley County and the City of Tribune adopted a unified government — a five-member commission with two members elected by city residents, two by rural residents, and one at-large (the town of Horace opted out). This is a governance-consolidation detail, not a law-enforcement one; nothing found bears on who runs the jail, and no evidence departs from the sheriff-runs-the-jail rule of K.S.A. 19-811. The county's own site could not be opened this session to confirm the current roster or a board/minutes URL (see jail.facts for what was tried).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Greeley 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