Miami County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byMiami County Sheriff's Office (statutory jailer, K.S.A. 19-811)
• StaffingThe Sheriff's Office page lists approximately 72 personnel including 21 Deputy Jailers, 1 RN and a part-time LPN, indicating the office operates its own jail, though no facility name, address or capacity is published on that page
• What was triedmiamicountyks.org/242/Sheriff was the only page that loaded; /522/Staff-Directory (failed twice), /contactus, /1099/Find, /452/Mission-Vision, /1040/Recruiting, a staff-directory profile page, and a budget Fund-Summary-Report PDF all failed to fetch (robots.txt errors)

Source: Miami County — Sheriff · 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 Miami 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 Frank Kelly

• 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)
• Name sourceNot named on the one Miami County page that could be opened; sourced to the Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile. A WebSearch snippet separately showed a staff-directory entry for a 'Matthew P. Kelly' on miamicountyks.org, but that page could not be opened to confirm who that is or whether it is the sheriff — not treated as a name change here.

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Miami 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 6th 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