Bon Homme County

The Detention Center

Bon Homme County Jail

• Operated byBon Homme County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Mark Maggs)
• Capacity6 beds, per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association
• 2020 Census custodial population2 people on April 1, 2020, per the Prison Gerrymandering Project's republication of the Census correctional facility file (a one-day snapshot, not a bed count) — see plains_states.json
• What was triedNo Bon Homme County government website exists to check (confirmed absent via sdcounties.org's own directory). dakotaathome.sd.gov pages for the sheriff and commissioners were opened but did not name a jail administrator or commissioners.

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Bon Homme County · 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 Bon Homme 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
• Beds6, per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association (not the county's own site — not counted toward the checks above)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Mark Maggs

• JailSheriff's office operates "a 6 bed jail facility and a full-time dispatch center"
• Staffing2 deputies, 8 total staff, per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association
• ContactPO Box 1 / 300 W. 18th Avenue, Tyndall, SD 57066; 605-589-3942
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)
• County websiteBon Homme County does not maintain its own website, per the South Dakota Association of County Officials' county directory ("Those Counties without a link do not maintain a website")

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Bon Homme County · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

South Dakota circuit judges are elected nonpartisan for an eight-year term (SD Const. Art. V §7; SDCL 16-6-3). Full-time magistrate judges are nominated by the circuit's presiding judge and approved by the Supreme Court (SDCL 16-12B-1.2). No county-specific judge names were located from a source opened this session.

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