Stafford County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byStafford County Sheriff's Office (statutory; K.S.A. 19-811)
• What was triedhttps://www.staffordcounty.org/sheriff--communications.html (opened; no jail, detention, custody, or bail content of any kind); https://www.staffordcounty.org/county-annex.html (department list; no jail/detention entry); https://www.staffordcounty.org/emergency-services.html (EMS/Fire/Emergency Management only; no jail mention); https://www.staffordcounty.org/commissioners.html (commissioner names and a list of dated minutes; no jail or budget content)
• KSA profileThe Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile for Stafford County (https://www.kansassheriffs.org/county_map/county/981) lists only the sheriff's name, mailing address, phone and fax — no jail staffing, capacity, board rate, or budget fields are populated, unlike some neighboring counties' profiles

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — Stafford County profile · 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 Stafford 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 Rob Murrow

• TitleStafford County Sheriff
• Office address209 North Broadway, St. John, Kansas 67576 (per the county's own site); mailing address PO Box 386, St. John, KS 67576 (per KSA profile)
• Phone620-549-3247
• Fax620-549-6409
• Office hours8:00am-5:00pm Monday-Friday; 911 for emergencies, (620) 549-3247 for non-emergencies (per county's own site)
• Communications DirectorGina Schwein (per county's own site)
• 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

Source: Stafford County — 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). The 20th 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 →