Todd County

The Detention Center

Not found — Todd County does not appear to operate a county jail

• Operated byNot applicable
• Tribal jurisdictionTodd County is coterminous with the main Rosebud Indian Reservation. South Dakota is a non-Public Law 280 state, so a reservation lying inside a county's boundaries does not place detention there under the county sheriff — that is the law, not a gap. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 correctional facility file lists, as separate tribal facilities on Rosebud, the "Rosebud Sioux Tribal Police Department and Adult Detention" (2020 census-day population 88) and "Rosebud Sioux Wanbli Wiconi Tipi Juvenile Detention" (14).
• Nearest non-tribal detention named in a source opened this sessionThe Winner City Jail, a MUNICIPAL (not county) facility in Winner, Tripp County, recorded a 2020 census-day population of 94 — larger than all but four county jails in the state. Whether Todd County prisoners are held there under a formal agreement was not established from a source opened this session.
• 2020 Census correctional facility fileTodd County is not among the county-run facilities listed for South Dakota.
• What was triedTodd County has no official website per the SD Association of County Officials directory. A guessed ujs.sd.gov Sixth Judicial Circuit / Todd County court-finder URL was refused for lack of provenance.

Source: Prison Gerrymandering Project — South Dakota correctional populations, Census 2020 vintage · 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 Todd 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 Not found

• How the office is filledUNRESOLVED. No source opened this session — county, state, or association — establishes whether Todd County's sheriff is separately elected, appointed, or served concurrently by Tripp County's sheriff. This was deliberately not guessed.
• Office listing foundThe South Dakota Sheriffs' Association's county directory lists a Todd County Sheriff's Office at "PO Box 1038, 315 Lincoln Street, Mission, SD 57555-1038," phone 605-856-4411, email toddco@gwtc.net — no officeholder name, and the entry is marked as under construction with no photo available. Mission is a town inside Todd County itself, distinct from Winner (Tripp County), where Todd's auditor, treasurer and register of deeds functions are contracted out.
• What was triedTodd County has no county website: the South Dakota Association of County Officials directory (sdcounties.org/counties/) states plainly, "Those Counties without a link do not maintain a website," and lists none for Todd. A guessed South Dakota Unified Judicial System court-finder URL for Todd County was refused by the fetch tool for lack of provenance.

Source: South Dakota Sheriffs' Association — Todd County · 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 two or more names submitted by the Judicial Qualifications Commission. Many first appearances are instead handled by an appointed magistrate judge (nominated by the circuit's presiding judge, approved by the Supreme Court, SDCL 16-12B-1.2) or, off a court-adopted bond schedule, by a clerk magistrate (SDCL 16-12C-10) — neither of whom is elected. Circuit and magistrate judges 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