The Detention Center
Sheridan County Detention Center
- Operated bySheridan County Sheriff's Office, Detention Division
- Managed byThe county names Lieutenant Gibbons with Sergeants Sulz and Stach.
- Phone307-672-5623.
Source: Sheridan County detention · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtDecember 1982 — the county's third jail, in the Law Enforcement Center
- Original costAbout $1.1 million for the jail addition, per a local news history
- Paid for byNot found for the 1982 building
- Beds126, with a 2025 monthly average of about 59 in house
Since then
- 2004 — expansion from about 50 beds to 124, at $4.25 million: $1.5 million capital facilities tax, $1.75 million state loan and investment board, $600,000 county general fund, $400,000 USDA rural development loan
- Ongoing — a jail loan payment line in the county budget, $383,682 actual in one recent year
The Sheriff
Sheriff W. Levi Dominguez
- How the county writes itThe name is taken from the signature block of the sheriff's welcome letter on the county site.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sheridan County Sheriff · 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, 4th Judicial District
- Hon. Sheryl Smith Bunting — appointed January 2024; term expires January 2027
224 South Main Street, Suite B7, Sheridan, WY 82801
District Court, 4th Judicial District
- Hon. Darci Phillips — appointed April 2022; term expires January 2031
224 South Main Street, Room B-11, Sheridan, WY 82801
- 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
- Sheridan publishes the most complete money picture in the state: an itemized detention department of $3.6 million, plus capacity, monthly population by sex, meals served and detention payroll.
- Do not confuse the county's historic jail restoration fund with the operating detention center. They are different buildings.
- Agendas and minutes from 2018 forward are on one page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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