The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- No county jailHyde County operated its own jail as part of the county organization until 1974, when it was abandoned and jail-related services were contracted to surrounding counties, per Wikipedia's county article
- Which countiesNot named in the source reviewed
- What was triedhttp://hydeco.org/ (the county's own site, identified by name from the SD Association of County Officials directory) could not be opened this session — refused for lack of search provenance
Source: Wikipedia — Hyde County, South Dakota · checked 2026-08-25
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗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
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 since 1974
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kylie Rinehart
- OfficePO Box 521, Highmore, SD 57345; (605) 852-2513; fax (605) 852-3178
- How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Hyde 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 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). Hyde County sits in the Sixth Judicial Circuit (SDCL 16-5-1.2). Named circuit or magistrate judges were not located from sources opened this session.
Circuit Court — Sixth Judicial Circuit
- Not found
Magistrate Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
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
Notes on the record
- Hyde County's own site (hydeco.org) was named by the SD Association of County Officials directory but could not be opened this session (no search provenance for that exact URL) — every check here is 'no' for that reason, not because the county fails to publish; a future pass with search budget to spend on hydeco.org specifically should retry.
- State-layer finding applies: no state agency inspects adult county jails in South Dakota.
- Board of County Commissioners (South Dakota's standard county governing body under SDCL ch. 7-8). The county's own site, hydeco.org, could not be opened this session, so no board or minutes URL is confirmed.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Hyde County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-25 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered