The Detention Center
Cuming County Jail
- Operated byCuming County Sheriff's Office
- County's own sitecumingcountyne.gov/sheriff/ contains no jail name, address, capacity, roster, fee, bond, inspection, PREA, death, or contract information
- Off-domain description (not a county source, not used for transparency checks)The Nebraska Sheriffs Association's own page describes a "Cuming County Jail" at 200 South Lincoln Street, Room 203, West Point, NE, an "average-security incarceration center" with about 4,905 bookings/year (~13 daily admissions), accepting West Point PD and U.S. Marshals Service prisoners, with a work-release program
Source: Nebraska Sheriffs Association — Cuming County Sheriff and County Jail Information · checked 2026-08-25
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗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
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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tim Schultz
- Runs the jailYes, by default under Neb. Rev. Stat. 47-105 and 23-1703 (no county board of corrections identified for Cuming County)
- Office200 S Lincoln, Rm 203, West Point, NE
- Contact(402) 372-6019; sheriff@cumingcounty.ne.gov
- Term expiresJanuary 2027 (per the county's own sheriff page), consistent with the four-year partisan term set by Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520
- Staffing5 commissioned officers and 1 office manager, per the county's own sheriff page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cuming County government — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25
The Judges
Nebraska uses merit selection with retention elections for every trial court judge, including the county court judge who sets bail at first appearance. The Governor appoints from a list submitted by a judicial nominating commission (Neb. Const. Art. V, sec. 21); an appointed judge later faces an uncontested retention vote. District Court (general jurisdiction) and County Court (bail at first appearance, misdemeanors, probate, most juvenile matters) are both state courts, not county offices. No sitting judge's name for this county was found on a source opened this session, so judges are recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
District Court
- Not found
County 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 2026-08-25
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 →
Notes on the record
- Cuming County's own site (cumingcountyne.gov) names a sheriff and gives contact/staffing detail, but no page found this session — the sheriff page, or any other navigation link surfaced from the homepage — names, addresses, or describes the county jail. All ten checks are recorded no on that basis.
- The jail's existence, name and rough scale (name, address, ~4,905 bookings/year) come only from the Nebraska Sheriffs Association's own site, not Cuming County's domain, so per the universal rule this does not count toward any "yes" check; it is recorded in jail.facts for context only.
- One WebSearch and one further WebSearch (2 of the group's 5-search budget) were spent trying to locate a Cuming County jail page or news source; neither surfaced anything beyond commercial inmate-search aggregators, which were excluded from this record.
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 83-4,131 requires Nebraska Crime Commission personnel to inspect the facility and deliver a written report within 30 days to the facility's governing body (the county board), not to the public. No state agency publishes these reports, and the county's own site does not publish one either, so this is recorded as not published rather than as a violation.
- Cuming County's own site labels its governing body the "Board of Supervisors," meeting the 2nd Tuesday and last Wednesday of each month in the Board Room of the Cuming County Courthouse. Seven district members are listed: Steven Meister (D1, Chairman), Maynard Munderloh (D2), Judy Mutzenberger (D3), Mark Schweers (D4), Glen Wiechman (D5, Vice Chair), Chad Dixon (D6), Norbert Holtz (D7). This confirms the 2008 Blue Book's listing of Cuming among the 27 township-organization Board-of-Supervisors counties.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cuming 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