The Detention Center
Not scored. The county's own website was not reachable in the session that produced this record, so its disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.
- Operated byNot found
- What was triedhttps://www.neoshocountyks.org/ (opened twice — general county overview and CodeRED emergency-alert content; no Sheriff/jail links surfaced in what was returned); https://www.neoshocountyks.org/176/Sheriff (opened — returned the same generic CodeRED/overview content rather than sheriff or jail information); https://www.neoshocountyks.org/157/Departments (attempted twice — both failed, WebFetch could not retrieve robots.txt); https://www.neoshocountyks.org/directory.aspx?EID=26 (attempted — failed the same way)
- RETRYhttps://www.neoshocountyks.org/176/Sheriff opened again this session but again returned only generic CodeRED emergency-alert boilerplate rather than sheriff or jail content — the same CMS quirk as the first pass. https://neoshocountyks.org/164/Neosho-County-Commission, attempted fresh this session, failed with an SSL handshake failure (a different failure mode than the earlier robots.txt timeouts on /157/Departments).
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Neosho County profile · checked 2026-09-17
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 Greg Taylor
- TitleNeosho County Sheriff
- Office addressPO Box 109, Erie, KS 66733
- Phone620-244-3888
- Fax620-244-3887
- Statutory jail dutyK.S.A. 19-811 makes the elected sheriff the charge and custody officer of the county jail and all prisoners in it
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Neosho 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 31st 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.
- 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
- Not fully scored. The county's homepage was reachable but yielded only generic county-overview and emergency-alert content; the Sheriff's Office page returned the same generic content rather than sheriff or jail information, and the Departments and staff-directory pages failed to load in this session. The county's actual jail disclosures were never genuinely examined, so checks are left unscored rather than marked 'no'.
- K.S.A. 75-5228, the 1973 jail inspection statute, was repealed effective 11 April 1996; the companion statute, K.S.A. 75-5227, was repealed effective 1 July 1996. Nothing replaced them, and the Kansas Department of Corrections runs no county-jail inspection program.
- RETRY (this session): the Sheriff page loads (it is not blocked) but its actual content is generic site-wide CodeRED alert text, not sheriff or jail information — this looks like a site templating issue on neoshocountyks.org rather than a fetch failure. The Commission page failed this time with a TLS handshake failure rather than the earlier robots.txt timeout. No jail-transparency content was reached on either attempt. audit.checks remains empty.
- RETRY session (2026-09-17): neoshocountyks.org (confirmed as the correct domain) was retried at the root, /176/Sheriff (again returned only generic CodeRED emergency-alert boilerplate, the same CMS templating issue as prior sessions), /157/Departments (robots.txt fetch error), and /directory.aspx?EID=26 (robots.txt fetch error). No jail-transparency content was reached on any attempt. audit.checks remains {}.
- Neosho County is organized into three commissioner districts, per the county's own homepage. Board membership, agenda, and minutes pages could not be retrieved this session (repeated fetch failures on department subpages).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Neosho 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