Douglas County

The Detention Center

Douglas County Sheriff's Office Jail

• Operated byDouglas County Sheriff's Office
• Jail address1038 Buckeye Road, Minden, NV 89423 (PO Box 218). Jail Administration (775) 782-9944. Inmate mail goes to PO Box 1777, Minden, NV 89423
• Shared building1038 Buckeye Road is also the address of the Ninth Judicial District Court and of the East Fork Justice Court, so the jail, the district court and the justice court share a site
• MoneyThe FY2026-27 final state-format budget shows Public Safety - Corrections at $11,613,563 final approved, against $11,472,668 estimated for the current year and $10,757,894 actual for the year ended 30 June 2025. The Sheriff line is budgeted separately at $19,868,629
• Telephone ratesPrepaid service through NCIC Inmate Communications, billed per minute with no connection fees: $0.16 a minute for all calls in the United States, $0.25 to Mexico and Canada, $0.35 for other international calls. Pay phones are available 08:00-22:00 for collect calls only, and inmates cannot receive calls
• Visiting'There are NO in person visits.' All visitation is through NCIC. Video visits are $0.30 per minute, messages $0.25 each, and picture or video messages $0.35 each
• CommissaryDeposits in person at Jail Administration Monday to Friday 08:00-17:00, or by money order through the mail; there is no online deposit route. Commissary purchases are made on Thursday mornings, with money in by 17:00 on Wednesday. Card payments carry the county Clerk-Treasurer's disclosed transaction fee - up to 2.50 per cent with a $2.00 minimum on credit cards, 1.5 per cent with a $2.00 minimum on debit cards, $1.50 flat for ACH
• A published rule'Per Douglas County Policy Section 11(6B) An Inmate released from the Facility may NOT deposit funds to another inmate's account within ninety (90) days of release'
• BailCash-only bail may be paid in person by cash, cashier's cheque, money order or card, with photo ID matching the payment method. Bondable bail may be posted through an authorised bail bond company and the office publishes a bail bond list. 'A no-bail hold means the inmate is not eligible for release on bail and cannot be released without a court order'
• No rosterThe Jail Bookings and Bail page says 'Inmate List coming soon. Currently, please refer to our app on your android or apple device.' The site's own Jail Roster link returns HTTP 404
• What was triedThe Sheriff's Office site at sheriff.douglascountynv.gov - Sheriff Coverley, Jail Information, Jail Bookings and Bail, Commissary, Telephone Calls, Visiting - and on the county site the Board of County Commissioners, BOCC agendas and minutes, Finance, Budgets and the FY2026-27 final state budget, plus the District Court, East Fork Justice Court and Tahoe Justice Court pages. No bed count, no daily population, no year built, no death in custody, no PREA audit result and no inspection result is published

Source: Douglas County Sheriff's Office - Jail Information · checked 2026-08-23

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✗Beds and daily population — not published
• ✓What it costs taxpayers
• ✗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
• ✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Douglas County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. 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 byCorrections is funded from the county's general budget; FY2026-27 final approved $11,613,563, made up of $5,942,001 salaries and wages, $3,663,483 employee benefits and $2,008,079 services and supplies
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Daniel Coverley

• Runs the jailYes. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office runs the jail through its Jail Information division at 1038 Buckeye Road, Minden - Jail Administration (775) 782-9944
• How the office is filledElected. NRS 248.010 provides for a sheriff elected in each county; NRS 211.030 makes the sheriff the custodian of the county jail
• What his own office publishes'Sheriff Daniel Coverley has been a member of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office since 1997. He was elected to office in 2019.' He worked for the Albuquerque Police Department before Douglas County and has served in the jail, investigations and patrol divisions
• Qualifications publishedBA in Criminology, University of New Mexico
• Cross-checkThe Nevada Association of Counties 2026 directory lists Dan Coverley as Sheriff of Douglas County

Source: Douglas County Sheriff's Office - Sheriff Coverley · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Nevada District Court judges are elected in nonpartisan district-wide races to six-year terms, and Justices of the Peace are elected to six-year terms in their township. Both are state judicial officers under Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution, not county officials, although the county pays for the Justice Court. At first appearance it is normally the Justice of the Peace who sets bail; the Justice Court also holds preliminary examinations in felony and gross misdemeanour cases. Mid-term vacancies are filled by appointment - by the Governor for a District Court seat, by the board of county commissioners for a Justice of the Peace - and the appointee then stands at the next election. NRS 211.030 makes the sheriff the custodian of the county jail and NRS 248.050 makes the sheriff responsible for the prisoners in it, so the judge who sets bail and the officer who holds the prisoner are answerable to different electorates. Douglas County is split into two justice court townships - East Fork in the valley and Tahoe at Stateline - so which judge sets a person's bail depends on which side of the Kingsbury Grade they were arrested. Judge Johnson's own court page is unusually clear about the appointment route: appointed in 2023, then elected to retain the seat in 2024.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23

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 →