Leavenworth County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byLeavenworth County Sheriff's Office, per K.S.A. 19-811
• Not the county jail — USP LeavenworthOperated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (U.S. Department of Justice), a federal facility
• Not the county jail — U.S. Disciplinary Barracks and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional FacilityMilitary confinement facilities operated by the U.S. Army / Department of Defense at Fort Leavenworth
• Not the county jail — Leavenworth Detention CenterA private facility operated by CoreCivic, holding detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service
• Not the county jail — Lansing Correctional FacilityA Kansas state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections
• What was triedThe county's own site, leavenworthcounty.gov, was fully reachable and its navigation shows the Sheriff's Office is hosted on a separate external site, lvsheriff.org, rather than on the county's own domain. The exact href for that link was confirmed by re-fetching leavenworthcounty.gov, but WebFetch still refused every attempt to open lvsheriff.org (with and without 'www.', with and without a trailing slash) as outside the trusted provenance set. A commission admin packet (files.leavenworthcounty.gov, May 2024) does show line-item warrant payments referencing 'LVSO ... JAIL SUPPLIES,' jail medical services and a jail dentist, but no summary of jail name, address, capacity or budget.

Source: Leavenworth County — official site (Sheriff's Office and Departments navigation) · 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 Leavenworth 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 Andrew Dedeke

• TitleLeavenworth County Sheriff
• Runs the jailYes, as statutory jailer under K.S.A. 19-811
• Office address601 South Third St., Ste. 2007, Leavenworth, KS 66048-2764
• Office phone913-682-5724

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Leavenworth 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). The 1st 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.

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 →