The Detention Center
Beadle County Correction Center
- Operated byBeadle County Sheriff's Office
- HousesAdult Jail and Juvenile Detention Center
- Who it detainsPrisoners from Beadle County, the City of Huron, and contracted surrounding counties, per the Sheriff's Office page
- Also known asThe state-layer 2020 Census correctional facility file lists this facility as the 'Beadle County Regional Corrections Center'; the county's own site calls it the 'Beadle County Correction Center' — the partner counties in that regional relationship were not established from a source read here
- What was triedhttps://www.beadlesd.org/27/Government and https://www.beadlesd.org/157/Departments were each attempted twice and failed both times with a robots.txt fetch timeout; the county's homepage also failed the same way
Source: Beadle County, SD — Official Website, Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
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 confirmed on the county's own site (the SD Sheriffs' Association page states 62 adult / 11 juvenile)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Doug Solem
- Runs the jailYes — Beadle County Sheriff's Office operates the Beadle County Correction Center (SDCL 24-11-13)
- TermElected, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)
- Facility size per Sheriffs' AssociationA 62-bed jail and 11-bed juvenile detention center (not independently confirmed on the county's own site)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Beadle County, SD — Official Website, Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25
The Judges
South Dakota circuit judges are elected in nonpartisan elections to eight-year terms (SD Constitution Art. V §7; SDCL 16-6-3); a vacancy is filled by the Governor from nominees of the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Magistrate judges, who often set bail in practice, are appointed rather than elected: full-time magistrates are certified by the presiding judge and approved by the Supreme Court for four-year terms (SDCL 16-12B-1.2, 16-12B-1.3); magistrate courts have concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts to fix bond (SDCL 16-12B-7). A third tier, clerk magistrates, may also fix bond off an adopted schedule (SDCL 16-12C-10). Beadle County sits in the Third Judicial Circuit.
Circuit Court — Third Judicial Circuit (Beadle is one of 14 counties in the circuit; judges not named in a source read here)
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
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
Notes on the record
- Beadle County's own site names its jail (a real 'yes'), but repeated robots.txt timeouts on beadlesd.org's Government and Departments pages blocked every other check.
- No state agency inspects adult county jails in South Dakota; SDCL ch. 24-11 contains no inspection section. state_inspection is recorded as empty per the group brief.
- Board of County Commissioners, under SDCL 24-11-2 (jail establishment duty) and SDCL 7-8-20 (general powers). Beadle County's own Government and Departments pages could not be opened (repeated robots.txt fetch timeouts), so no commissioner names, board page, or minutes URL are recorded here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Beadle County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-25 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered