The Detention Center
None — Sheridan County operates no jail
- Operated byN/A
- Where Sheridan County's prisoners are heldNot confirmed on Sheridan County's own site this session. Per ND state-layer research (established in plains_states.json, drawing on the host facilities' own DOCR inspection reports), Sheridan County inmates are held at the Burleigh Morton Detention Center (Bismarck), Mercer County Jail (Stanton), and McLean County Detention Center (Washburn).
- State-layer sources for the destination facilitiesBurleigh Morton: https://www.docr.nd.gov/sites/default/files/documents/jails/Burleigh%20Morton%20County%20Inspection.pdf ; Mercer: https://www.docr.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/jails/Mercer%20County%20Inspection.pdf ; McLean: https://www.docr.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/jails/McLean%20County%20Detention%20Center.pdf
Source: ND state-layer research (plains_states.json), citing the Burleigh Morton, Mercer, and McLean county DOCR inspection reports · checked 2026-08-25
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 applicable — Sheridan County operates no jail
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Trent Naser
- Runs the jailNo county jail — Sheridan County's own site does not name a destination facility; ND state-layer research (Burleigh Morton, Mercer, and McLean county inspection reports) independently names Sheridan among the counties those facilities hold
- ElectedYes — NDCC 11-10-02, four-year term
- Office215 E 2nd St, McClusky, ND 58463; 701-363-2200; tnaser@nd.gov
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sheridan County — Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-08-25
The Judges
North Dakota district judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms (ND Constitution Art. VI, Sec. 1). Midterm vacancies are filled by the Governor from a list submitted by a judicial nominating committee, unless the Governor instead calls a special election (ND Constitution Art. VI, Sec. 13). District judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. Under ND Supreme Court Administrative Rule 20, a presiding judge may appoint a magistrate with delegated authority to hold initial appearances and set bail under NDCC ch. 29-08.
District Court — South Central Judicial District
- Cynthia M. Feland (Presiding Judge)
- Daniel J. Borgen
- James S. Hill
- Jason Hammes
- Jackson J. Lofgren
- Pamela A. Nesvig
- Lindsey Nieuwsma
- Marina Spahr
- Bonnie L. Storbakken
- Bobbi Weiler
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-25
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 →
Notes on the record
- Sheridan County operates no jail and is not among the 20 ND counties with an operating adult correctional facility.
- 'named' is recorded no because, unlike Ransom, Renville, and Sargent, Sheridan County's own website does not itself name a destination detention facility — the Sheriff's Office and Auditor pages checked this session contain no jail-related content. The destination facilities are established only through the host counties' own DOCR inspection reports, cited via the state layer.
- Sheridan County's own Auditor page publishes no budget document; only a Mill Levy / tax-statement search tool.
- 3-member Board of County Commissioners: Shannon Dieterle (District 1), Rod Schilling (District 2), Sandra Felchle (District 3). Meetings first Tuesday of the month at 12:30 PM.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sheridan 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 2026-08-25 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered