Converse County, Wyoming — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Converse County Detention Center

Operated byConverse County Sheriff's Office, under Sheriff Clint Becker and Captain Adam Alvarado
Address1201 Mesa Drive, Suite C, Douglas, WY 82633.
OpenedOctober 28, 2018 with 80 beds; expanded March 2024 to 112 beds and five holding cells.
MedicalOn-site nursing under contract with Memorial Hospital of Converse County.

Source: Converse County Sheriff detention division · checked August 21, 2026

Transparency rating

6/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Converse County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked August 21, 2026. 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 built2018 — opened October 28, as the detention wing of the Converse County Joint Justice and Dispatch Center
Original cost$30,157,806 spent on Phase I, of which the City of Douglas reimbursed $8,178,304 — a net county cost of $21,979,502 for the whole justice center, not the jail alone
Paid for byCounty funds and reserves with a City of Douglas cost share. No bond issue found.
Beds112, up from 80 at opening; the jail it replaced had 34

Since then

2024 — expansion to 112 beds, inside a $24,634,872 Phase II contract that also built a new courts facility. The detention share is not broken out.

The Sheriff

Sheriff Clint Becker

Office1201 Mesa Drive, Suite C, Douglas, WY 82633. Phone 307-358-4700.
Took officeThe sheriff's office states he was sworn in as sheriff of Converse County in 2007.

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Converse County staff directory, conversecountywy.gov · checked August 21, 2026

The Judges

Wyoming splits the bench. Circuit Court handles initial appearances — the first place bond is set. District Court takes felonies after bindover.

Circuit Court, 8th Judicial District

Hon. Clark C. Allan — appointed January 2021; term expires January 2027

1201 Mesa Drive, Suite E, Douglas, WY 82633

District Court, 8th Judicial District

Hon. F. Scott Peasley — appointed August 2017; term expires January 2031
Hon. Edward A. Buchanan — appointed September 2022; term expires January 2031

1201 Mesa Drive, Suite F, Douglas, WY 82633

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked August 21, 2026

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

The jail, the district court and the circuit court all sit in the same complex at 1201 Mesa Drive.
Converse publishes its bond terms in full: card accepted 24/7 through a payment vendor, 8.5% service fee, $50,000 per transaction maximum.
One of the few counties to publish both bond mechanics and communication rates.
The justice-center joint powers board — which governs the facility housing the jail — publishes its own agendas in the same place.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Converse 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.

The sheriff is on your ballot

In Wyoming the county clerk runs the election in Converse County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the Wyoming Secretary of State and vote.gov.

Names verified August 21, 2026 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered