The Detention Center
Not established
- Operated byNot established
- What was foundSheriff's page repeats the general Nebraska statutory language on jail custody but names no facility, address, or capacity
- What was triedFetched morrillcountyne.gov sheriff page and commissioners page; the county's home page could not be fetched (provenance not established for the bare root URL) and no dedicated jail/corrections page was reached
Source: Morrill County Sheriff · 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 Milo Cardenas
- TitleCounty Sheriff
- Contact308-262-0408, PO Box 858, Bridgeport, NE 69336
- Jail dutySite states sheriff has 'charge and custody of the jail and its prisoners, except in counties where a County Board of Corrections exists' — boilerplate statutory language; no facility name given
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Morrill County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25
The Judges
Nebraska judges are merit-selected: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission's list, then the judge faces periodic uncontested retention elections (Neb. Const. Art. V, sec. 21). The County Court judge sets bail at first appearance and is a state judicial officer, not a Morrill County employee.
County Court Judge
- Not found
District Court Judge
- 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
- Morrill County's site was reachable only through specific pages surfaced by a search of its domain (sheriff.html and commissioners.html); the site's home page itself could not be fetched under this research's provenance rules, limiting how much of the site could be checked for jail, budget, or transparency content.
- No jail name, address, roster, capacity, death, PREA, inspection, contract-rate, bond, or fee information was found published on morrillcountyne.gov.
- Nebraska Jail Standards Board inspection reports go to the county governing body, not the public; no publication by Morrill County was found.
- Board of Commissioners, three members: Jeff Metz (Chairman), Susanna Batterman, Joshua Schmidt. Meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Morrill 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