Wallace County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byWallace County Sheriff's Office
• Staffing / capacity / budgetNot published on the Kansas Sheriffs' Association's Wallace County profile — the page carries only contact information, no staffing table, bed count, or budget figure
• County website — known state-list error, corrected this sessionportal.kansas.gov's county list gives http://www.washingtoncountyks.gov for Wallace County — the identical URL the same list gives for Washington County. This is an error on the state's page, and is NOT recorded as Wallace County's website. A general web search (not domain-restricted, since Wallace's real domain was unknown) found Wallace County's actual official website: https://wallacecountyks.gov/ — opened this session at its Contact-Information page.
• What the real site (wallacecountyks.gov) showsThe Contact-Information page (https://wallacecountyks.gov/225/Contact-Information) lists County Clerk, Road Supervisor, Noxious Weed/Prairie Dog Control, Landfill Supervisor, Ambulance Director, Fire District #2, and Building & Grounds contacts — it does not list a sheriff's office or jail contact.
• What was triedGeneral WebSearch (no domain restriction) found https://wallacecountyks.gov/, its County Clerk page, a Facebook page, Wikipedia articles on the county and Sharon Springs, a Kansas County Treasurers Association directory entry, a 'Notify Me' page, a 'Staff Directory' page, and the Contact-Information page. WebFetch succeeded on /225/Contact-Information. WebFetch on the site root (https://wallacecountyks.gov/) failed twice with robots.txt fetch errors, so a sheriff/jail page elsewhere on the site (if one exists) was not found. No curl/wget workaround was used.

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — county profile (Wallace County) · 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 Wallace 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 Marshall Unruh

• TitleWallace County Sheriff
• Office addressPO Box 37, Sharon Springs, KS 67758 (seat inferred from this mailing address — the profile does not label it 'county seat')
• Phone / fax785-852-4288 / 785-852-4275
• Statutory jailerK.S.A. 19-811 makes the elected sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and all prisoners in it; the Kansas Sheriffs' Association profile lists no separate jail administrator for Wallace County

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — county profile (Wallace 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 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