Logan County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byLogan County Sheriff's Office (statutory jailer, K.S.A. 19-811)
• Jail staff reported0 (Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile) — consistent with one of the roughly 11 Kansas counties that contract for jail services under K.S.A. 19-1929, though no source names the receiving facility
• What was triedcityofoakleyks.gov/sheriff/ and cityofoakleyks.gov/logan-county-departments/ show no dedicated jail page or facility name; where Logan County's prisoners are actually held was not found on any source opened
• Also sourced toCity of Oakley — Sheriff — https://cityofoakleyks.gov/sheriff/

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Logan County · 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 Logan 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 Pat Parsons

• Runs the jailYes — statutory jailer under K.S.A. 19-811
• How the office is filledElected countywide for a four-year term (K.S.A. 19-801a)
• UndersheriffDustin Little
• DiscrepancyThe Kansas Sheriffs' Association county profile names Dustin Little as sheriff; Logan County's own site names Pat Parsons as sheriff and Dustin Little as undersheriff. This record follows the county's own site.
• Also sourced toKansas Sheriffs' Association — Logan County — https://www.kansassheriffs.org/county_map/county/943

Source: City of Oakley — Sheriff (Logan County) · 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 15th 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 →