• Lyon County Detention Center, 425 Mechanic St., Emporia, KS 66801; detention 620-341-3205, sheriff's office 620-342-5545. It is a 163-bed adult facility for felony and misdemeanor detainees and sentenced inmates.
• Other county jails nearby:
• Coffey County Jail, 625 Neosho St., Burlington, KS 66839, 620-364-2123
• Osage County Jail, 131 W. 14th St., Lyndon, KS 66451, 785-828-3121
• Greenwood County Jail, 311 N. Main, Eureka, KS 67045, 620-583-5568
• Morris County Jail, 501 W. Main St., Council Grove, KS 66846, 620-767-6310
• Wabaunsee County Jail, sheriff's office at 215 Kansas, Alma, KS 66401, 785-765-3323

Choose Kansas, enter a first and last name, and VINE lists the facility and custody status. Register a phone or email to hear of a release or transfer. New bookings can lag, so call 620-341-3205 right after an arrest.

No. A booking photo can be sought through a Kansas Open Records Act request to the sheriff (K.S.A. 45-215); the office decides what it releases. ICE photos need an ICE FOIA request, and federal booking photos are public only for fugitives the U.S. Marshals list.

Deputies from the sheriff's office in Emporia are the ones who serve warrants around here, and if you're worried one has your name on it, call them at 620-342-5545. They can check by name and date of birth. There's no statewide warrant search in Kansas. Cases from the Emporia courthouse are on Kansas CaseSearch, though, and a bench warrant shows up there as part of the file. The calmest way to clear it is to have a lawyer reach the judge's office first, then walk into the county's detention center in Emporia yourself. If this all started with a missed hearing, Emporia's district court clerk, over on Commercial Street at number 430, can talk you through getting a new date; that office answers at 620-341-3280.

Bond is posted at the detention center once a 5th Judicial District judge, or the Emporia city court on a city charge, sets it. Confirm the amount and payment method at 620-341-3205. Bail agents must be approved, charge at least 10% and sign at the jail (K.S.A. 22-2809b). Our bail page has more.

Under K.S.A. 22-2802 the court can add supervision, travel limits or house arrest, and a person-crime bond bars contact with the alleged victim for 72 hours or more.

- Lyon County District Court, Lyon County Courthouse, 430 Commercial St., Emporia, KS 66801; 620-341-3280, fax 620-341-3497. The 5th Judicial District also covers Chase County. - Emporia Municipal Court, 518 Mechanic, Emporia, KS 66801 (mail: PO Box 928); 620-343-5666. See our court page.

First appearance promptly (K.S.A. 22-2901); preliminary exam in a felony within 14 days (K.S.A. 22-2902); trial within 150 days of arraignment if held only on that case, or 180 days on bond (K.S.A. 22-3402).

Kansas CaseSearch: choose Lyon County and search by name or case number. CR files are criminal, TR traffic. Sealed and juvenile cases are hidden. The clerk at 620-341-3280 can explain an entry.

Request it from the bench at arraignment and fill out the income form; the Kansas indigent defense board (785-296-6631) pays for appointed lawyers.

The sheriff keeps the jail, houses men and women apart, and must provide food, drink and medical care (K.S.A. 19-1903). Report medicines to the detention staff at 620-341-3205.

There are no in-person visits. Every visit is by video, scheduled ahead, monitored and recorded. Visitors must be 18 or be accompanied by a parent or guardian; staff end any visit with nudity or illegal activity. See our visitation page.

- Print the full name and address of sender and recipient on the front, with no other writing or art. Stamps, labels, stickers and tape are removed; crayons, colored pencils, glitter and waxy or powdery items go to property. - Legal mail must show the attorney or firm and the word "privileged." - No cash, checks, money orders or personal property by mail. Paperback books must come straight from a publisher or major retailer. See our mail page.

Use the county's online deposit service or ask the detention desk at 620-341-3205. Commissary orders close at 10 p.m. Sunday. See our money page, commissary page, phone page and messaging page.

The Mechanic Street jail does not hold minors; a youth ordered detained goes to a juvenile detention center with room, and the sheriff at 620-342-5545 can tell a parent or guardian where.

1. Lyon County federal cases go to the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Topeka division: 444 SE Quincy, Room 490, Topeka, KS 66683, 785-338-5400.
2. A federal magistrate judge rules on detention.
3. The U.S. Marshals Service in Topeka, 785-596-9470, assigns detained defendants to contract jails.
4. Sentenced people are in the BOP inmate locator.

1. ICE lodges a Form I-247A with the jail.
2. Paying the Lyon bond leaves the detainer standing.
3. Federal rules permit detention "up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released" (8 CFR 287.7(d)); afterward the jail must release.
4. ICE's Chicago Field Office, 872-351-3990, covers Kansas.
5. Search the ICE detainee locator or call 888-351-4024.

Search KASPER, KDOC's offender lookup, and see our Kansas state prisons directory.

Yes. Under K.S.A. 21-6615, a Lyon County judge at 430 Commercial St. (620-341-3280) has to choose a start date that covers every day the defendant was jailed before the case was resolved. Detention staff at 620-341-3205 can confirm when the person was booked. Days already counted on a sentence running consecutively, or held in another state with no Lyon hold, are excluded.

• Lyon County Sheriff's Office, 425 Mechanic St., Emporia, KS 66801: 620-342-5545. Olpe, Hartford, Neosho Rapids, Reading, Allen, Admire and Bushong have no city force on the KBI roll, so deputies answer calls there.
• Emporia Police Department, 518 Mechanic, Emporia, KS 66801: 620-343-4200.
• Emporia State University Police, 1701 Wooster Dr., Emporia, KS 66801: 620-341-1200.
• Americus Police Department, 604 Main St., Americus, KS 66835: 620-443-5655.
• Kansas Highway Patrol: 785-296-6800, or *47 from a cell phone.
• Emergencies: 911.