Oglala Lakota County

The Detention Center

Fall River County Jail (contracted use; not an Oglala Lakota County facility)

• Operated byFall River County Sheriff's Office (Sheriff Lyle Norton)
• County's own statementOglala Lakota County's own jail page names 'The Fall River County Jail,' located at 906 N. River St., Hot Springs, next to the courthouse, as the facility used for county detention
• No public rosterFall River County's own site states: 'Fall River County Jail does not publish a list of inmates as this list can change on an hourly basis'
• Tribal/BIA facilitiesWhether a named BIA or Oglala Sioux tribal detention facility (the state-layer research notes the Oglala Sioux Tribal Offenders Facility and Medicine Root Detention Center on Pine Ridge, both flagged as federal in the Census correctional facility file, reported without counts) is used for on-reservation tribal-jurisdiction detention was NOT established from a county or tribal source actually opened in this pass
• What was triedhttps://oglalalakotacountysd.gov/jail/ and https://fallrivercountysd.gov/sheriff/ fetched; no capacity, budget, PREA, inspection, or per-diem contract rate was found for the arrangement between the two counties

Source: Oglala Lakota County — Jail · 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 Oglala Lakota 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 Daylon Black Bull

• Runs the jailNo — Oglala Lakota County does not operate its own jail. The county's own jail-information page identifies 'The Fall River County Jail' at 906 N. River St., Hot Springs, as the facility used
• How the office is filledNOT ESTABLISHED from the sources reviewed. The county's own site states County Commissioners 'are elected to a 4 year term,' but its Sheriff's Office page gives no election or appointment information for the sheriff. Per the state-layer research and MOUNTAIN_COUNTY_BRIEF, this is a genuinely unresolved point for Oglala Lakota County and was not guessed here.
• Office location906 N. River St., Hot Springs, SD 57747 — the same Hot Springs administrative address the county uses generally, since Oglala Lakota County has no county seat of its own
• Tribal jurisdictionOglala Lakota County lies entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. South Dakota is a non-Public Law 280 state (SDCL 1-1-20, 1-1-21; U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota), so detention arising from on-reservation, tribal-jurisdiction matters is handled by tribal and federal authorities, not the county sheriff. This is the settled jurisdictional structure, not a gap or a failure.

Source: Oglala Lakota County — 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, sec. 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 this county were not located from the sources reviewed 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 →