Hutchinson County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot found
• No jail foundHutchinson County does not appear on the state-layer research's 26-county list of South Dakota counties with a jail (derived from the 2020 Census facility file), and the county's own Sheriff's Office page names no jail facility
• Where prisoners goNot established from sources opened this session. The Sheriff's Office page mentions prisoner transport 'to the Yankton Human Services Center,' but that is a state human-services facility, not a description of where county jail inmates are held, and was not treated as an answer to this question
• What was triedhttps://www.hutchinsoncountysd.gov/departments/sheriff.php (opened — no jail named); https://www.hutchinsoncountysd.gov/ and /index.php (fetch loop on this session's http/https redirect handling, content not retrieved)

Source: Hutchinson County, SD — Sheriff · 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 Hutchinson 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 applicable — no county-operated jail found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Maurice Waltner

• Office140 E. Euclid Street, Rm 123, Olivet, SD 57052; (605) 387-2341; fax (605) 387-4218; hutchso@gwtc.net
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)
• Services listed on county siteTraffic/parking enforcement, welfare checks, emergency response, warrant file maintenance, court security, prisoner transport (in-state, out-of-state, and to the Yankton Human Services Center), and service of court papers

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Hutchinson County · 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). Hutchinson County sits in the First Judicial Circuit (SDCL 16-5-1.2). Named circuit or magistrate judges were not located from sources 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 →