Rawlins County

The Detention Center

Rawlins County Jail

• Operated byRawlins County Sheriff's Office
• Address607 Main St., Atwood, KS 67730
• Inmate rosterPublished live on the county's own site: as of August 2026 it listed 7 inmates, each with photo, full name, specific charges with Kansas statute citations, bond amount, arresting/charging agency, arrest date, age, sex, and race
• Bond amounts in the rosterRanged from $25,000 to $1,500,000 cash or surety across the listed inmates
• Jail capacity (per Kansas Sheriffs' Association directory — not confirmed on the county's own site)10 beds total — 8 male, 2 female
• Out-of-county inmates / annual budgetNot published on the county's own site
• What was triedThe county's own site (rawlinscounty.org) was opened successfully this session: the homepage, the County Commissioners page, the Sheriff/Communications page, and the Inmate Information page all returned content. A link to the sheriff's separate domain, rawlinscountysheriff.org, appeared in the fetched text but was refused by the fetch tool as out of provenance when tried directly, so it was not opened.

Source: Rawlins County, KS — Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-17

• ✓The jail is named
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✗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 Rawlins 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
• Beds10 (8 male, 2 female) — per Kansas Sheriffs' Association directory; not confirmed on the county's own site

The Sheriff

Sheriff Catlyn Wahrman

• TitleRawlins County Sheriff
• Confirmed on the county's own siteCatlyn Wahrman is named as Sheriff on rawlinscounty.org's Sheriff/Communications page, alongside Undersheriff Jesse Niemeth and Deputy/K9 Deputy Edward Temmel II (with K9 "Badger")
• Office address607 Main St. #G, Atwood, KS 67730
• Office phone(785) 626-3865; fax 785-626-3764; dispatch 785-626-3208
• Staffing (per Kansas Sheriffs' Association directory)3 sworn personnel, 2 support staff
• Runs the jailYes, under K.S.A. 19-811 — confirmed by the county's own inmate-roster page, which identifies the Rawlins County Jail at the Sheriff's Office address

Source: Rawlins County, KS — Sheriff / Communications · 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). This county sits in the 15th Judicial District together with Cheyenne, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, and Wallace counties (per Wikipedia's Kansas District Courts article). Which selection method the 15th District actually uses, and who currently holds the bench, was not established on the county's own site this session. 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 →