Clicking on any of the Kansas Counties or Cities below will direct you to a list of all the City Jails, County Jails and Juvenile Detention Centers in that specific County.
Kansas has 105 counties. The sheriff runs the jail where the county has one. Sedgwick, Johnson, Shawnee, and Wyandotte run the large buildings. A western county may have a small jail or book into a neighbor. City police departments have holding rooms, not county jails. Not every county keeps its own jail, so a building count and a county count are not the same number.
Jails in Kansas hold people before trial and people serving a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor can mean up to a year in the county jail. A felony sentence goes to the Kansas Department of Corrections. A federal sentence goes to the Bureau of Prisons. USP Leavenworth is the federal prison in the state.
The department’s adult prisons are El Dorado, which includes the reception unit and the Oswego unit, Ellsworth, Hutchinson, Lansing, Larned, Norton, which includes the Stockton unit, Topeka Correctional Facility for women, and Winfield, which includes the Wichita Work Release Facility. On March 1, 2026, the adult population was 9,754. The department’s August 25, 2026 count showed 9,836 people in KDOC facilities, 8,963 men and 873 women.
Most of the 105 counties operate a jail. The ones that do not contract with a neighbor. When a jail holds someone for another county, for the state, or for the U.S. Marshals, it bills a contract rate. That rate is not a statewide fee. Johnson and Sedgwick fill because the counties grew. A 12-bed jail in western Kansas fills because the next bed is a long drive.
County detention and state commitment are different systems. Kansas has nine locally operated juvenile detention centers, licensed by the Department for Children and Families. The Department of Corrections does not run them. It pays a per diem only when a youth in its custody is held there. A youth in one of those nine centers is usually waiting on court.
The state commitment facility is the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka. Everyone there has been adjudicated and sentenced. The secretary can keep custody until age 22 and a half. On March 1, 2026, the complex held 157 youth, 151 boys and 5 girls. About half were older than 18, and about 90 percent were at least 16. Search the county of the arrest. The listing shows the local detention center, and the Topeka complex only if the youth has been committed.
Booking is a queue: identity, prints, a medical screen, a search, property bagged, one call. The person has not been convicted. The pod still runs on counts. In January the holding cell is cold. Food is plain, the uniform does not fit, and sleep is broken. Withdrawal from alcohol or methamphetamine can start before the first appearance.
Deputies who apply the rules the same way to everyone run a quieter floor. Uneven enforcement is how contraband moves. Sedgwick and Johnson can separate by risk. A small western jail often cannot, and a full jail there means a transfer.
Larger Kansas jails sell tablet time, video visits, and deposits through a vendor. A small jail may still be a phone-time account and a visit through glass. Those privileges can be shut off. Each county page on this site lists the jail phone, the vendor, and the way to send money for that sheriff’s office.