Pawnee County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot found
• No jail foundPawnee County does not appear as a reporting jail facility in the Nebraska Crime Commission's jail-data reporting table, consistent with having no operating county jail — but this is a state list, not a county-published statement
• Where prisoners are heldNot found — no page on the county's own site states where prisoners are actually held
• What was triedhttps://pawneecountyne.gov/sheriff-office/ (no facility mentioned); https://pawneecountyne.gov/jail/ and https://pawneecountyne.gov/corrections/ (not reachable); https://pawneecountyne.gov/county-court/ (no jail content)

Source: · 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 Pawnee 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 Braden Lang

• Office address625 6th Street, Pawnee City, NE 68420 (mail: PO Box 267)
• Runs the jailNo county jail found — see jail entry
• How the office is filledElected on a partisan ballot, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)

Source: Pawnee County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska's trial courts (District Court and County Court) are state judicial officers, not county officials. All Nebraska judges are merit-selected: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission list, then face retention elections (Neb. Const. Art. V, section 21). No presiding judge's name for Pawnee County Court was found — the page names only the Clerk Magistrate and states the court is 'staffed remotely on Wednesdays and as needed.'

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 →