Edmunds County

The Detention Center

Edmunds County Detention Center

• Operated byEdmunds County Sheriff's Office
• BedsA 40-bed jail facility, per the county's own Sheriff's Office page, staffed with a Jail Administrator and 10 Jail Staff
• VisitationKiosk hours Wednesday 4-8 p.m. and Sunday 1-4 p.m.; scheduling also offered through the third-party vendor NCIC.com
• Inmate mailPage lists a mailing address at PO Box 591, Longview, TX 75606 — a vendor mail-processing address rather than the jail's physical location
• 2020 Census snapshotEdmunds Co. Jail population 3 on April 1, 2020, per the state-layer research citing the Census facility file
• County financial documentsedmunds.sdcounties.org/county-financials/ links audit reports (2013-2023), annual reports (2016-2025), and budget documents (2017-2026), but the page itself does not break out a jail or corrections line item, and the PDFs were not opened in this pass

Source: Edmunds County, SD — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✗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 Edmunds 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 Jonathan Waldner

• Office address221 2nd Street / PO Box 303, Ipswich, SD 57451
• Runs the jailYes — the elected sheriff is the jail's officer in charge under SDCL 24-11-13; office staff includes a Jail Administrator and Jail Staff
• Staff4 Road Deputies; 1 Chief Dispatcher/Head Secretary; 4 Dispatchers; 1 Jail Administrator; 10 Jail Staff
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)

Source: Edmunds County, SD — Sheriff · 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 Edmunds 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 →