Gosper County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot found
• Not in the state's jail-reporting listGosper County does not appear among the counties in the Nebraska Crime Commission's jail record submission status table, which does list Hall, Hamilton and Harlan counties (the other members of this research group) as reporting jail agencies
• Sheriff's page confirms transport rather than detentionThe Sheriff's Office duties list includes transporting and extraditing prisoners rather than housing them
• Where current prisoners are heldNot established from a source opened this session

Source: Nebraska Crime Commission — Jail record submission status table · checked 2026-08-25

• ✗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 Gosper County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-25. 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 Joshua Richie

• Runs the jailThe Sheriff's Office page lists duties including "Transporting inmates to and from court" and "Prisoner extraditions" but no jail or detention operation — consistent with Gosper County not operating a reporting jail facility
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)
• Office507 Smith Ave, Elwood, NE 68937; (308) 785-2420; officesheriff@gospercountyne.gov

Source: Gosper County, NE — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska judges are merit-selected and are state, not county, officials: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission's list, and the appointee then faces an uncontested retention vote (Neb. Const. Art. V § 21). No named county or district court judge for Gosper County was located from a source opened this session.

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 →