The Detention Center
Washakie County Detention Center
- Operated byWashakie County Sheriff's Office
- Phone307-347-4581.
- Where the name appearsIn the sheriff page's contact block; the county has no standalone detention-center page.
Source: Washakie County Sheriff · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗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 published
The Sheriff
Sheriff Austin T. Brookwell
- Phone307-347-2242.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Washakie 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, 5th Judicial District
- Hon. Edward G. Luhm — appointed January 2019; term expires January 2029
1001 Big Horn Avenue, Worland, WY 82401
District Court, 5th Judicial District
- Hon. Bobbi Overfield — appointed October 2018; term expires January 2027
1001 Big Horn Avenue, Suite 211, Worland, WY 82401
- 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
- Washakie has no detention page at all. The sheriff's page is a contact card carrying the jail's name and phone number — that is the entirety of what the county publishes about the facility.
- Its budget, though, is one of the most detailed in the state: a full detention department of $901,260 broken out to jailer salaries, prisoner medical, and board and care.
- The link labelled “Agendas & Minutes” carries agendas only. Minutes are published as “Proceedings” on separate year pages — and nothing has been posted for 2025 or 2026, so recent proceedings appear only as paid legal notices in the local paper or by records request to the County Clerk.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Washakie 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 Washakie 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