• Named by the sheriff as contract jails: Thomas County Jail, 275 N. Court, Colby, KS 67701, 785-460-4570; and Trego County Jail, 525 Warren, WaKeeney, KS 67672, 785-743-5721.
• Online lists: the Gove sheriff's housing page links the Thomas County jail roster, and the Trego sheriff posts its own Trego County jail roster. Check both, since a Gove arrest can be held at either one.
• Gove County Sheriff's Office, Gove County Courthouse, 420 Broad St., Gove, KS 67736; 785-938-2250; fax 785-938-2251; mail P.O. Box 146, Gove, KS 67736.
• Court: district court sessions and the clerk's office are in the courthouse at 420 Broad St., P.O. Box 97, Gove, KS 67736, 785-938-2310, fax 785-938-2312. A magistrate hears cases here, and the 23rd District's judges sit in Hays (Ellis County), so some hearings run by video. Search filings on Case Search; our court page covers each step.
• Lawyer: a defendant who cannot pay can ask the magistrate for appointed counsel, funded by the State Board of Indigents' Defense Services, 785-296-6631.
• Other nearby jails: Graham County Jail, 410 North Pomeroy, Hill City, KS 67642, 785-421-2107; Sheridan County Jail, 940 Eighth St., Hoxie, KS 67740, 785-675-3481; Scott County Jail, 602 West 5th Street, Scott City, KS 67871, 620-872-2133.

A 23rd District magistrate sets bond, and it is posted at the contract jail holding the person. The Gove County clerk, 420 Broad St., 785-938-2310, can explain the court side. Our Gove County bail page goes through the options.

Visits follow the holding jail's rules, Trego's or Thomas's. Ask the sheriff (785-938-2250) which, then call that jail before you travel. See our visitation page for general tips.

• Letters: use the address of the holding jail, which the Gove sheriff can confirm; our mail page lists what's not allowed.
• Calls go out only and are recorded; read our phone page.
• Messaging: our email page.
• Funds: our money page and commissary page.

Quinter, the county's largest town, has a police department at 202 Gove St., Quinter, KS 67752, but the KBI lists no phone for it. Whether city police or deputies made the arrest, the person is booked by the sheriff and driven to whichever contract jail has room, Trego in WaKeeney or Thomas in Colby. The sheriff's office mail address is P.O. Box 146, Gove, KS 67736, and the fax is 785-938-2251, which is the way to send paperwork such as a bond receipt or a medication list. Check both jail rosters first, since the sheriff may not know a transfer happened within the hour.

Call the sheriff at 785-938-2250 with details on medications or conditions. For a court-appointed lawyer, the defendant asks the Gove County magistrate.

No mugshots or booking photos are posted. The sheriff, 785-938-2250, handles open-records requests for booking images and reports (Kansas Open Records Act, K.S.A. 45-215). ICE records go through ICE FOIA.

Warrants here are served by deputies from the sheriff's office in the town of Gove; call 785-938-2250 to find out whether one is active. Kansas offers no public warrant search for every county at once, but the courthouse in Gove puts its cases on Kansas CaseSearch, where a bench warrant would be listed. Because the county houses prisoners at the Trego County Jail in WaKeeney (785-743-5721) or the Thomas County Jail in Colby (785-460-4570), ask the sheriff where to report, and have a lawyer arrange the surrender. To ask about a missed hearing, call 785-938-2310, the line for the clerk of the district court on Broad Street (number 420).

Federal cases from here belong to the Topeka division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas; the clerk is at 444 S.E. Quincy, Room 490, Topeka, KS 66683, 785-338-5400. Before trial, the U.S. Marshals Service in Topeka, 785-596-9470, places a federal prisoner in a jail with a Marshals contract. Once sentenced, look in the BOP locator.

1. ICE can lodge a Form I-247A detainer with the holding jail.
2. A paid state bond leaves the ICE request in place.
3. The holding jail can detain someone "up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released" (8 CFR 287.7(d)); with no ICE pickup, the person is freed.
4. Kansas reports to ICE's Chicago Field Office, 872-351-3990.
5. Search the ICE detainee locator or call 888-351-4024.

Search KASPER and then use our Kansas prisons directory.

The sheriff can board a prisoner at any county jail willing to take one, so a Gove arrest may also turn up in Graham (Hill City), Sheridan (Hoxie) or Scott (Scott City), whose numbers are listed above. VINELink covers all of them, which makes it the quickest single search when the sheriff's line is busy or after hours.

Youths aren't jailed with adults. A judge may order a detained juvenile to a regional detention center. Call the sheriff at 785-938-2250 to ask where the youth went.

Yes. Days a prisoner spends in any jail the sheriff (785-938-2250) uses, while the case is open, are credited when the district court at 420 Broad St. (785-938-2310) sets the sentence start date under K.S.A. 21-6615. Families who think the credit is short can ask the sheriff for the booking dates and the clerk for the journal entry.

The court is bound to forfeit the bond and order the person picked up, as K.S.A. 22-2807 requires; the clerk at 785-938-2310 can confirm whether one is out, and deputies at 785-938-2250 serve it. A person who stays away for 30 days after the forfeiture can be charged with failure to appear under K.S.A. 21-5915, a misdemeanor or felony depending on the original case.

Anyone who asks the court at 420 Broad St. (785-938-2310) for a state-paid lawyer pays $100 to apply, under K.S.A. 22-4529. A judge may reduce it when money is tight, and Broad Street returns it after an acquittal or a dropped charge. Probation revocation cases carry it too.

• Gove County Sheriff's Office, 420 Broad St., Gove, KS 67736: 785-938-2250.
• Quinter Police Department, 202 Gove St., Quinter, KS 67752. The KBI lists no phone for it, so Quinter police matters go to the sheriff at 785-938-2250.
• Grainfield, Grinnell, Park and Gove City have no police department; Gove deputies patrol them.
• Kansas Highway Patrol: 785-296-6800; *47 from a cell phone.
• Emergencies: 911.