The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byGreenwood County Sheriff's Office
- Jail staffing/bedsNot published on the Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile (fields blank)
- What was triedgreenwoodcounty.org/sheriffs-department/ was opened successfully and gives only a mission statement and contact details — no jail name, roster, budget, PREA result, inspection result, contract, bond guidance or fee schedule. The page also names a separate sheriff's-office site, greenwoodcountysheriff.org, which is not the county's own domain and which this session could not open. greenwoodcounty.org/county-commission/ returned a 503 server error on two attempts.
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 Heath Samuels
- Runs the jailYes — K.S.A. 19-811 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and its prisoners
- Office address311 North Main, Eureka, KS 67045 (mailing: PO Box 150)
- Phone / fax620-583-5568 / 620-583-7134
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Greenwood 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). Greenwood County sits in the 13th Judicial District with Butler and Elk counties; its own district magistrate judge is Phyllis K. Webster. The 13th 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.
District Court — 13th Judicial District
- David Ricke (Chief Judge, Butler County)
- Charles M. Hart (District Judge, Butler County)
- Jan Satterfield (District Judge, Butler County)
- Chad M. Crum (District Judge, Butler County)
- Phyllis K. Webster (District Magistrate Judge, Greenwood 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
- greenwoodcounty.org's sheriff's-department page was opened successfully but carries only a mission statement and contact information; none of the ten checks could be verified there, and the county-commission page 503'd on every attempt. Recorded 'no' rather than guessed.
- 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)
- Board of County Commissioners (Kansas's default three-member form under K.S.A. 19-201). The county's own commission page (greenwoodcounty.org/county-commission/) returned a 503 server error on repeated attempts, so the current roster is not confirmed.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Greenwood 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