Spink County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byNot established from a source opened this session
• County's own siteThe Spink County Sheriff's Department page (spinkcounty-sd.org/sheriff.html) contains no jail, detention, roster, bond, or fee information.
• 2020 Census correctional facility fileSpink County is not among the 26 counties whose facilities are listed — a floor, not a certainty.
• Where prisoners goNot established from a source opened this session.
• What was triedA provisional county budget PDF ("ADOPTION OF PROVISIONAL BUDGET FOR SPINK COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA," spinkcounty-sd.org/budget/) and commission minutes PDFs on the county's own site were located, but every fetch attempt on those exact PDF URLs returned a redirect loop between the https and http versions of the same address and never returned readable content, so none of them could be opened and read this session.

Source: Spink County, South Dakota — Sheriff's Dept · 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 Spink 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 Jenna Appel

• ElectedYes — SDCL 7-7-1.1, four-year term
• Contact210 E. 7th Avenue, Suite #1, Redfield, SD 57469-1299; (605) 472-4595; fax 605-472-2301; 571@spink.sdcounty.gov
• OperationsThe county's own Sheriff's Department page describes law-enforcement staffing and a 24-hour communications center; it does not mention a jail

Source: Spink County, South Dakota — Sheriff's Dept · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

South Dakota circuit judges are elected in a nonpolitical election to eight-year terms (SD Constitution Art. V §7; SDCL 16-6-3); a midterm vacancy is filled by the Governor from Judicial Qualifications Commission nominees. Many first appearances go instead to an appointed magistrate judge (SDCL 16-12B-1.2) or a clerk magistrate working off a bond schedule (SDCL 16-12C-10), neither of whom is elected. All are state judicial officers, not county officials.

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 →