The Detention Center
Reno County Corrections Facility (RCCF)
- Operated byReno County Sheriff's Office
- Address206 W 1st Avenue, Hutchinson, KS 67501
- CapacityHouses up to 250 inmates: 50 beds designated for work release (34 male, 16 female) plus 12 general-population pods
- Staffing4 crews on rotating 12-hour shifts; a Lieutenant, 4 Sergeants, 5 Corporals, 32 Deputies, and 7 civilian employees including nurses, a mental health counselor, and a reentry coordinator, under a Jail Captain
- ProgramsMedical care, full kitchen and laundry services, GED, NA, AA, peer support, a fatherhood initiative, anger management, "Seeking Safety," and church programs
- Not published on this pageInmate roster, bond/bail procedures, commissary or phone fees, PREA compliance, inspection results, deaths in custody, budget, or out-of-county contracts
- What was triedrenogov.org was opened successfully this session (homepage, Correctional Facility page). The Commission page (renogov.org/152/Commission) returned an HTTP 403, and the Budgets page (renogov.org/795/Budgets) returned an HTTP 404, so commissioner names and a corrections-specific budget line could not be confirmed on the county's own site.
Source: Reno County, KS — Correctional Facility · checked 2026-09-17
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsUp to 250 total capacity (50 work-release beds: 34 male, 16 female; plus 12 general-population pods)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Darrian Campbell
- TitleReno County Sheriff
- Confirmed on the county's own siteThe Reno County Corrections Facility page lists Darrian Campbell as Sheriff (in office 2020–present) and includes a historical list of Reno County sheriffs dating back to 1872
- Office address210 West First, Hutchinson, KS 67501
- Office phone620-694-2735; fax 620-694-2702
- Association roleAlso serves as First Vice President of the Kansas Sheriffs' Association, per the KSA profile page
- Runs the jailYes, under K.S.A. 19-811 — the county's own site organizes the jail as the Reno County Corrections Facility under the Sheriff's Office
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Reno County, KS — Correctional Facility · 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). Reno County is a standalone judicial district, the 27th (per Wikipedia's Kansas District Courts article). Which selection method the 27th District actually uses, and who currently holds the bench, was not established on the county's own site this session. The 27th 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.
27th Judicial District — District Court
- Not found
- 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
- Genuinely examined this session. Reno County names its Corrections Facility and publishes bed/capacity figures on its own site — real, positive findings. The other eight items were checked for and not found on the page examined.
- State-layer finding applies: K.S.A. 75-5228, the 1973 Kansas jail inspection statute, was repealed effective April 11, 1996 (its companion 75-5227 followed July 1, 1996) and nothing replaced it — no Kansas agency has statutory authority to inspect this or any county jail. The Kansas Department of Corrections runs no county-jail program.
- Not found — the county's own Commission page (https://renogov.org/152/Commission) returned an HTTP 403 this session and could not be opened.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Reno 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