• Men: Hodgeman County Jail, 500 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Jetmore, KS 67854; 620-357-8391; fax 620-357-8300; mail P.O. Box 701.
• Women: the jail has no female beds, so women are housed in another county. Ask the sheriff which one.
• Nearby jails for arrests just outside the county: Ford County Jail, 11311 E Comanche, Dodge City, KS 67801, 620-227-4501 (it also holds Edwards County's arrests); Ness County Jail, 221 W. Main St., Ness City, KS 67560, 785-798-3611; Pawnee County Jail, 116 W. 8th, Larned, KS 67550, 620-285-2211; the Gray County Sheriff's Office, 300 S. Main, Cimarron, KS 67835, 620-855-3916, which can say where a Gray arrest is held; and Finney County Jail, 304 N. Ninth Street, Garden City, KS 67846, 620-272-3700 (Alternative number: 620-272-3756).

A 24th District judge fixes the bond, and the money is accepted upstairs at the sheriff's desk in the courthouse. The clerk of the district court (620-357-6522) can explain the order on weekdays. Read our Hodgeman County bail page for bond types and refunds. Property taken at booking is given back at release.

Jetmore is where the Hodgeman County Sheriff's Office works from, and its deputies serve warrants across the county; you can reach them at 620-357-8391. No statewide warrant search is open to Kansans, but cases from the Jetmore courthouse sit on Kansas CaseSearch, where a judge's warrant would be listed. If one is active, the usual move is a surrender at the Hodgeman County Jail that your lawyer schedules ahead. Jetmore's district court clerk, at 500 Main, answers at 620-357-6522 and can explain how to ask for a new hearing date after a missed one.

Hodgeman County District Court, in the courthouse at 500 Main, Jetmore, KS 67854 (mail P.O. Box 187), 620-357-6522. It belongs to the 24th Judicial District with Edwards, Lane, Ness, Pawnee and Rush counties. City tickets go to the Jetmore or Hanston municipal court. Our Hodgeman County court page walks through the hearings.

Call 620-357-8391 before making the trip to Jetmore to ask about visiting days, who is approved and the ID you need. Many Kansas jails also offer paid video visits from a phone or computer. Our visitation page explains the options.

• Outgoing calls only, recorded, paid through a prepaid account: see our phone page.
• Electronic messages where offered: our email and text page.
• Letters: the inmate's full name, Hodgeman County Jail, P.O. Box 701, Jetmore, KS 67854. Our mail page lists banned items.
• Money and snacks: the money page and the commissary page.

A lawyer can be appointed at the first appearance through the Kansas State Board of Indigents' Defense (785-296-6631). Tell jail staff right away about prescriptions, injuries, pregnancy or suicide risk. Staff log the information and can arrange care through local medical providers.

Booking photos come from the sheriff. Reporters and relatives may request one from the courthouse office at 620-357-8391. To get an ICE booking photo, file a request through ICE FOIA. Federal mugshots stay private, apart from fugitive photos the U.S. Marshals Service may release.

1. The charge is filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas; Wichita's courthouse, 401 N. Market, Room 204, Wichita, KS 67202, 316-315-4200, serves this region.
2. At a detention hearing, a U.S. magistrate rules on pretrial release.
3. The U.S. Marshals Service in Wichita, 316-765-6339, places detained defendants, often in a contract county jail; VINE can show which.
4. After sentencing, track them with the BOP inmate locator.

1. ICE may file a Form I-247A detainer with the Jetmore jail.
2. A detainer survives payment of the state bond.
3. When the state case would free the person, the sheriff may keep them "up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released" (8 CFR 287.7(d)); if ICE has not come by then, they go free.
4. ICE's Chicago Field Office, 872-351-3990, handles Kansas.
5. Look them up on the ICE locator or call 888-351-4024.

Kansas prisoners are classified at a reception center before being placed at a permanent prison. Check KASPER for the current location and our state prisons directory for phone numbers.

Minors do not go to the adult jail. After juvenile intake, a youth the court orders detained is sent to a regional youth detention center; for southwest Kansas that is often the Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 507 W. Santa Fe, Garden City, KS 67846. Call 620-357-8391 to learn where the child is.

Trial settings come from the district court at 500 Main (620-357-6522), and the sheriff at 620-357-8391 can say where the defendant is held. K.S.A. 22-3402 sets 150 days from arraignment for a defendant kept in jail only on that charge and 180 days for one released on bond, with defense-requested delays charged to the defendant.

Yes. The person files a petition with the clerk at 620-357-6522, and the court sets a hearing that the county attorney and the sheriff's office (620-357-8391) are told about. A judge may expunge under K.S.A. 22-2410 when the arrest was a case of mistaken identity, lacked probable cause, ended in acquittal, or was dismissed and clearing it serves justice; the $176 fee is waived after a dismissal or acquittal.

• Hodgeman County Sheriff's Office, covering Jetmore, Hanston and the rural county: 620-357-8391. The state law enforcement agency list shows no town police force in either city; deputies take those calls.
• Kansas Highway Patrol (highway enforcement): 785-296-6800.
• Emergencies: 911.