The Detention Center
Uinta County Detention Center
- Operated byUinta County Sheriff's Office
- Phone307-783-1020.
- Jail administratorLieutenant Brenden Morrow.
Source: Uinta County Detention Center · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 builtThe 1980s — decade only; no year published
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds80 designed capacity, average daily population 46 before the March 2024 PREA audit
The Sheriff
Sheriff Andy Kopp
- CommandUndersheriff Trevor Rasmussen.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Uinta 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, 3rd Judicial District
- Hon. Michael L. Greer — appointed July 2006; term expires January 2029
225 9th Street, Evanston, WY 82930
District Court, 3rd Judicial District
- Hon. James C. Kaste — appointed October 2022; term expires January 2031
225 9th Street, Evanston, WY 82930
- 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
- Uinta comes closest in Wyoming to publishing its contracts: its PREA audit names three agreements with dates — U.S. Marshals in 2018, state probation and parole in 2018, state corrections in 2020. Neither the text nor any rate is published.
- It publishes booking demographics: 1,906 people booked in 2025, of whom 70 were contract prisoners and 83 federal.
- Bond page distinguishes cash-only from cash-or-surety bonds and lists eight approved bail agencies.
- No single combined page: minutes, regular-session agendas and work-session agendas live in three separate document folders, all linked from the commissioners page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Uinta 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 Uinta 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