Deuel County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot found
• No county jail locatedNo Deuel County Jail appears in the 2020 Census facility snapshot cited in the state-layer research, consistent with the county not operating its own jail
• Contracted jail serviceThe South Dakota Sheriffs' Association's county directory states Deuel County 'Contracts for jail service,' but does not name the contracted facility and this is not a Deuel County-published source, so it is recorded here as unconfirmed rather than as a finding
• Where prisoners goNot found — the specific county or facility holding Deuel County's prisoners was not established from any source opened in this pass; the county's own Sheriff's Office page describes patrol, dispatch, transport, and civil-process duties but says nothing about detention arrangements

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Deuel 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 Deuel 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 Cory Borg

• Office address408 4th St. West, Clear Lake, SD 57226
• StaffOne sheriff, five deputies (Sgt. Ty Wik; Deputies Matt Nutter, Dillon Krosch, Kason Hinton, Brandon Collins), one administrative assistant (Mindi Dailey)
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)

Source: Deuel County, SD — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

South Dakota circuit judges are elected in a nonpartisan election for an eight-year term (S.D. Const. Art. V, section 7; SDCL 16-6-3); a mid-term vacancy is filled by the Governor from two or more nominees of the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Magistrate judges, who in practice handle most rural first appearances and bail-setting under SDCL 16-12B-7, are not elected: the presiding judge of the circuit nominates them and the Supreme Court approves or disapproves the appointment (SDCL 16-12B-1.2); full-time magistrates serve four-year terms, part-time magistrates serve at the presiding judge's pleasure (SDCL 16-12B-1.3). Named circuit or magistrate judges for Deuel County were not located from a source opened in this pass.

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 →