Sioux County

The Detention Center

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• Operated bySioux County Sheriff's Office
• Confirmed operationThe Sheriff's Office page states the office manages the county jail as one of its listed responsibilities, alongside emergency response, investigations, and sex offender registration oversight
• AddressSheriff's Office at 325 Main Street, Harrison, NE 69346 (Courthouse)
• What was triedhttps://siouxcountyne.gov/sheriff-office/, https://siouxcountyne.gov/county-board/, https://siouxcountyne.gov/county-court/ — no facility name, bed count, year built, budget line, roster, or fee schedule found on the county's own site. Sioux County had 239 residents in its county seat and is one of Nebraska's smallest counties by population.

Source: Sioux 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 Sioux 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 Chad McCumbers

• Runs the jailYes — the county's own site states the Sheriff's Office 'manage[s] the county jail'
• How the office is filledElected countywide on a partisan ballot, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)

Source: Sioux County Sheriff's Office · 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). Sioux County's own district-court page states Nebraska's district courts are 'organized into 12 judicial districts to serve all 93 counties' but does not state which district Sioux County is in or name a judge; only the Clerk of District Court (Michelle Zimmerman) and County Court Clerk Magistrate (Joni Roberts) are named.

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 →