Campbell County

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

• Operated byNone — Campbell County "contracts jail services with the Walworth County Jail", per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association
• Where prisoners goWalworth County Jail, per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association (Walworth County is one of the 26 counties with a jail in the 2020 Census correctional-facility file — see plains_states.json)
• 2020 CensusCampbell County does not itself appear among the 26 South Dakota counties with a facility in the 2020 Census correctional-facility file, consistent with contracting out

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Campbell 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 Campbell 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 applicable — no county-operated jail
• Original costNot applicable
• Paid for byNot applicable
• BedsNot applicable

The Sheriff

Sheriff Lacey Perman

• Tenure"has held office since August 12, 2004", per the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association
• Staffing2 total staff, 1 deputy
• BackgroundBegan law enforcement career in 1995 with the Mobridge Police Department; joined Campbell County Sheriff's Office as a deputy in March 2003
• ContactMound City, SD 57646; 605-955-3355
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)
• County websiteCampbell 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 — Campbell 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