The Detention Center
Hodgeman County Jail
- Operated byHodgeman County Sheriff's Office
- Beds8 male beds, 0 female beds (Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile)
- Daily board / out-of-county inmate rate$35.00 per day
- Jail Admin phone(620) 357-8391
- Budget, roster, deaths, PREA, inspections, contracts, bond info, feesNot published on the county's own site — hodgemancountyks.com's homepage and linked department pages (community calendar, main street, treasurer, job opportunities, new home incentive) contain no sheriff, jail, or commissioners subpage with this content
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Hodgeman County profile · 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
- Beds8 male / 0 female (per Kansas Sheriffs' Association, not the county's own site, so not used to satisfy 'capacity' check)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jared Walker
- TitleHodgeman County Sheriff
- Office address500 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Jetmore, KS 67854 (PO Box 701, Jetmore, KS 67854)
- Phone(620) 357-8391
- Staffing8 sworn staff, 6 support staff (Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile)
- Runs the jailYes, as statutory jailer under K.S.A. 19-811
- How the office is filledElected countywide for a four-year term under K.S.A. 19-801a
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Hodgeman County profile · checked 2026-09-17
The Judges
Kansas Constitution Art. 3 §6 makes partisan election of district judges the default; a judicial district may instead adopt nonpartisan (merit) selection under K.S.A. 20-2901. In most rural Kansas counties, including presumptively Hodgeman, bail at first appearance is set by a district magistrate judge under K.S.A. 20-302b. Hodgeman County's judicial district number and selection method were not established from sources reviewed in this pass. Which method this county's judicial district uses was not established for this record.
District Court (judicial district not independently confirmed) — Clerk of the District Court
- Not found
- 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
- Hodgeman County's own website (hodgemancountyks.com) was reachable but its homepage and linked pages (community calendar, mainstreet, treasurer's office, job opportunities, new home incentive) name no jail, sheriff subpage, roster, budget, PREA, inspection, contracts, bond, or fee information. None of the ten checks could be satisfied on the county's own domain.
- State inspection: repealed. K.S.A. 75-5228, Kansas's 1973 adult jail inspection statute, was repealed effective April 11, 1996 (companion K.S.A. 75-5227 repealed effective July 1, 1996); nothing replaced it, and the Kansas Department of Corrections runs no county-jail inspection program.
- Board of five County Commissioners by district: Michael MacNair (District 1), Terry Housman (District 2), Chris Klein (District 3), Emmett Aistrup (District 4), Mike Schraeder (District 5). Board fax: 620-357-6313.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Hodgeman 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