The Detention Center
Kane County Jail
- Operated byKane County Sheriff's Office
- Address971 E Kaneplex Drive, Kanab, UT 84741
- Jail CommanderLieutenant Tyrell Roundy
- Inmate mailPersonal mail is screened/scanned via a Longview, Texas P.O. Box and made available electronically; legal mail goes directly to the jail address
- What was triedkane.utah.gov/199/Jail, /301/Inmate-Information, and /307/Bail-and-Fines checked for beds, year built, cost, and roster — none published
Source: Kane County — Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- ✗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 found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tracy Glover
- Runs the jailYes — Kane County Jail, under the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected; Sheriff since 2012, previously Chief Deputy 2000–2012
- RecognitionNamed Utah Sheriffs Association Sheriff of the Year, 2022
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kane County — Employee Directory, Tracy Glover · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah judges are appointed by the Governor through a nominating commission, then face retention election. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The Sixth Judicial District covers Garfield, Kane, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, and Wayne Counties.
Sixth District Court — Presiding Judge
- Mandy Larsen
Sixth District Court — Kanab (Kane County location)
- Not found — county-specific assignment not published; district court judges named on the Sixth District's own page as handling matters across the district include Judges Lee and Bagley, with Juvenile Court Judge Paul Lyman also assisting
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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 →
Notes on the record
- Budget check is based on the county's published 2026 Approved Budget document (countywide), not a corrections-specific line item.
- Inmate phone/commissary accounts are handled through NCIC, linked from the county site, but no dollar rates are published there.
- Three-member elected Kane County Commission: Gwen Brown (Chair), Celeste Meyeres, Patty Kubeja.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kane 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 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered