Kingsbury County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot found
• No county jailThe South Dakota Sheriffs' Association's Kingsbury County page states the office 'Contracts jail services' rather than operating its own facility
• Which countiesNot named in the source reviewed
• What was triedkingsburycountysd.org (the county's own site, confirmed real by the sheriff's own email domain) could not be opened this session — refused for lack of search provenance; the mobile subdomain m.kingsburycountysd.org, which did have search provenance from a site: query, failed on DNS resolution rather than opening

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Kingsbury 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 Kingsbury 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 Steven Strande

• Office204 2nd St SE, De Smet, SD 57231; (605) 854-3339; fax (605) 854-9307; sheriff@kingsburycountysd.org
• Department sizeSouth Dakota Sheriffs' Association lists 5 total staff, 4 deputies
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (SDCL 7-7-1.1)

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Kingsbury 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). Kingsbury County sits in the Third 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