The Detention Center
Fremont County Detention Center
- Operated byFremont County Sheriff's Office
- Address460 Railroad Street, Lander, WY 82520. Phone 307-332-1858.
Source: Fremont County detention, fremontcountywy.org · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓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 byA 1% specific-purpose sales tax approved by voters at a special election on May 5, 1998. $2,000,000 of it became the corpus of a permanent Detention Facility Trust whose earnings pay utilities, maintenance and building replacement — documented in the county's own audit.
- BedsNot published on any county page
Since then
- A “Detention Door Retrofit” capital fund appears in the county's FY2024 audit; year and cost are not stated.
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ryan Lee
- Took officeThe county states he was elected and sworn in January 7, 2019 as the 25th sheriff of Fremont County.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fremont County Sheriff, fremontcountywy.org · 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, 9th Judicial District
- Hon. Jefferson Coombs (Lander) — appointed October 2021; term expires January 2027
- Hon. Daniel M. Stebner (Riverton) — appointed February 2023; term expires January 2029
Lander: 450 North 2nd Street, Room 230 · Riverton: 1160 Major Avenue, Suite 100
District Court, 9th Judicial District
- Hon. Jason M. Conder — appointed July 2019; term expires January 2027
450 North 2nd Street, Room 235, Lander, WY 82520
- 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
- Two circuit court locations — Lander and Riverton — each with its own judge. A first appearance could happen before either.
- The county's own detention page is a stub: name, address, phone, one link.
- The published detention budget states the facility's largest revenue source is federal, state and municipal housing fees, with a $300,000 revenue line — but no rate and no agreement.
- Agendas, minutes and meeting video are published together.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fremont 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.
- Find your polling place — Wyoming Polling Place Locator →
- Your county clerk — the office that runs the election (PDF) →
- Register to vote in Wyoming →
In Wyoming the county clerk runs the election in Fremont 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