Sheridan County

The Detention Center

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• Operated bySheridan County Sheriff's Office
• Address303 East 2nd Street, Rushville, NE 69360 (jail building east of the Courthouse)
• Capacity/staffing (dated)The Sheriff's Office page states a 24-bed capacity with an average daily population of 18.8 inmates and staffing of four full-time/one part-time jailers-dispatchers plus four full-time/one part-time dispatchers-matrons — the page itself dates this figure 'as of 2009,' so it is recorded here as historical, not current
• Law enforcement services contractJuly 21, 2026 board minutes record Sheriff Brewer renewing a contract with the new Grant County Sheriff for law-enforcement services in the southern part of the county — this is a patrol-services contract, not a jail-housing contract
• What was triedhttps://sheridancounty.ne.gov/webpages/sheriff/sheriff.html — no current bed count, roster, budget, contract rate, or PREA/inspection information found on the county's own site

Source: Sheridan County Sheriff's Office · 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 Sheridan 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 (a 2009-dated figure of 24 beds appears on the Sheriff's Office page; not treated as current)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jeff Brewer

• Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office occupies the main floor of the jail building east of the Courthouse; jail staff (jailers/dispatchers and dispatchers/matrons) work under the Sheriff
• How the office is filledElected countywide on a partisan ballot, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)
• Confirmed currentNamed as sitting sheriff in the Sheridan County Board of Commissioners' own minutes of July 21, 2026, discussing a law-enforcement services contract renewal with the new Grant County Sheriff

Source: Sheridan County Board of Commissioners minutes, July 21, 2026 · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska district and county court judges are merit-selected: a judicial nominating commission sends the Governor at least two qualified nominees on a vacancy, the Governor appoints (or the Chief Justice does after 60 days), and the judge then faces a nonpartisan retention vote at the next general election more than three years out, and every six years thereafter (Neb. Const. Art. V §21). Sheridan County's own court pages name only the clerks (Catherine Allen, County Court Clerk Magistrate; Carol Stouffer, Clerk of District Court), not a sitting judge, so both are recorded as 'Not found.'

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 →