Stanton County

The Detention Center

No county-operated jail found

• Operated byNot applicable — Stanton County boards prisoners at other counties' jails
• Where prisoners goStanton County's own board proceedings for 2014 and October 2025 itemize recurring 'boarding' payments to the Antelope County Sheriff's Department, the Madison County Jail/Sheriff, the Thurston County Sheriff, the Washington County Sheriff, and the Pierce County Sheriff, plus payments to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and to Northeast Nebraska Juvenile Service — this is the county's own documented arrangement for housing its prisoners, not a gap
• Example figures (2014-2025, county's own claims records)Antelope Co. Sheriff Dept. boarding $5,555.00; Madison Co. Jail boarding $300.00; Thurston Co. Sheriff boarding $9,840.00 and $900.00; Washington Co. Sheriff boarding $1,950.00; Pierce Co. Sheriff boarding $3,650.00 and $3,600.00 — dated line items from different county proceedings documents, not a current annual total
• Sheriff's Office weekly bookings pagehttps://stantoncountysheriff.com/weekly-bookings-citations/ publishes a rolling log of recent arrests and citations with names, ages, hometowns, and charges — this is a booking/citation log, not a real-time roster of who is currently in custody, so it is not counted as satisfying the roster check

Source: Stanton County Board of Commissioners proceedings · 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
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Stanton 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 Michael S. Unger

• Runs the jailNo county jail found; Stanton County's own board proceedings show the county paying to board prisoners at other counties' jails rather than operating its own facility
• How the office is filledElected countywide on a partisan ballot, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520); the sheriff's own site states he has held the office 'since 1986'

Source: Stanton 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). Stanton County's own site names only the County Court Clerk Magistrate, Katherine Armbruster, not a sitting county judge; the two Seventh Judicial District Court judges are based in Madison, NE.

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 →