Beadle County Juvenile Detention Center Inmate Bail & Bonds

The Third Judicial Circuit takes in Beadle and 13 other counties. That circuit has its own written rules for arrests and release. In short:

• Judge-set bond. Every felony needs a call to a judge. The same goes for a short list of Class 1 misdemeanors: simple assault, stalking, and violating a no-contact or protection order.
• Call hours. Judges take bond calls from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. A person booked later than 9 p.m. usually waits for bond until 8 a.m. or after.
• Release on a promise. Class 2 misdemeanors go out on personal recognizance, which means a signed promise to come back. Many other Class 1 misdemeanors can too.
• The 48-hour check. If the person is still held, a judge has 48 hours to find probable cause. If not, the jail must let them go.
• Two business days. After an arrest without a warrant, the State must file a complaint in that time, or the person walks free and any bond is cancelled.

Under state law, the first appearance before the closest available judge must come "without unnecessary delay," in person or over video (SDCL 23A-4-1). Court sits at the courthouse, 450 3rd Street SW, Huron, SD 57350, and the Clerk of Courts answers at 605-353-7165.

South Dakota starts from release, not money. The judge must first try personal recognizance or an unsecured bond, neither of which costs money at the start (SDCL 23A-43-2). Only if that won't bring the person back to court does the judge move down this list, picking the first step that works (SDCL 23A-43-3):

1. Release into the care of a person or group who agrees to supervise them.
2. Limits on travel, on who they can be around, or on where they live.
3. Conditions tied to mental health.
4. An appearance bond backed by a cash deposit of up to 10 percent. The deposit is paid back once every condition is met.
5. A full bail bond with sureties, or the whole amount in cash.
6. Any other rule the judge finds is needed.

To choose, the judge thinks about the charge, how solid the case looks, any mental health review, and the risk that the person could run off or harm someone (SDCL 23A-43-4). In alcohol and drug cases, judges often add the 24/7 Sobriety Program as a condition (SDCL 1-11-20).

Clerks all over South Dakota work from one form, the FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule. Every circuit adopts it, and it has been in force since July 1, 2026. Most lines give a range, so the real figure depends on the facts. A few examples:

• DUI, first or second offense: $225 to $1,000
• DUI, third or later (a felony): $1,000 to $5,000
• Grand theft: $1,000 to $10,000
• Robbery: $1,000 to $25,000
• Marijuana, two ounces or less (a misdemeanor): personal recognizance, so no money
• Class 2 misdemeanors in the Third Circuit: personal recognizance
• Murder, first-degree manslaughter or kidnapping: no schedule figure, because these go before a judge
• Domestic abuse: bond and conditions come from a judge, never from the clerk

To hear the amount in a specific case, call the jail at 605-353-8424 or the Clerk of Courts at 605-353-7165. Amounts differ from one circuit to the next, and our South Dakota bail law overview explains why the Huron chart may not match another county's.

Bond questions start at the Sheriff's Office building, 455 4th St SW, Suite 100, Huron, SD 57350, which also houses the jail. Work through these steps:

1. Call 605-353-8424. Give staff the legal name, spelled the way it is on a license, and the birth date.
2. Ask whether bond is set yet and what type it is: personal recognizance, a 10 percent deposit, full cash or a surety bond.
3. Ask where to pay at the hour you plan to come, the jail or the Clerk of Courts office.
4. Find out what payment staff accept and whose name goes on a cashier's check or money order.
5. Check for any other hold, warrant or testing rule that could block release even after payment.
6. Have a photo ID and the precise amount with you. Save the receipt for a later refund.

The Sheriff's front office keeps hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Phone before driving over at night or on a weekend.

Maybe at the clerk, so call first. The Beadle County Clerk of Courts handles circuit and magistrate cases alike. The office is at 450 3rd Street SW, Suite 204, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-7165, open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. At the clerk's window:

1. Phone first. Have the person's name ready, plus any case number.
2. Ask whether the clerk's window can take this bond or whether it must go to the jail.
3. Ask which forms of payment the window takes.
4. Keep the receipt; make sure the case number is printed on it.

Officers from the Huron Police Department, 239 Wisconsin Avenue SW, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-8550, bring the people they arrest to the county jail. For a city arrest, bond still runs through the jail and the court, so call jail staff at 605-353-8424.

Fines, restitution and court costs can go through UJS ePayments, the court system's card site. Bond is paid in person. The ePayments site also flags any active warrant tied to a case, which is good to know before anyone walks into the jail.

Payment rules can change, so phone ahead about cash, cashier's checks, money orders or cards:

• Jail and Sheriff's Office: 605-353-8424
• Clerk of Courts: 605-353-7165

Write down the payee name they give you. Carry exact cash if cash is allowed, and never mail it.

A bail bond agent, also called a bondsperson, covers the whole bond for the court. Your cost is the agent's fee. Every agent needs a license from the South Dakota Division of Insurance, 124 South Euclid Avenue, 2nd Floor, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3563. That office checks licenses and takes complaints. The courts keep an official list of bail bond agents.

• Unlicensed bonding is a Class 6 felony (SDCL 58-22-4).
• Jailers, police officers and sheriffs are barred from profiting off any bail bond (SDCL 58-22-3).
• The law forbids drumming up bond business where prisoners are held (SDCL 58-22-32).
• Get the fee in writing. List any collateral you hand over, like a vehicle title, on a signed receipt.
• A relative or friend can sign as a personal surety. They must swear in writing what they own and what they still owe on it (SDCL 23A-43-20).

A bond only answers for its own case. Other things may still stand in the way:

• Domestic abuse charges. Officers have to alert a judge before letting the person go, and the judge sets bond and conditions (SDCL 25-10-40). Rules may include no contact, moving out of the home, no alcohol and counseling (SDCL 25-10-41). Before that first hearing, the law bans reaching the alleged victim or that household at all, even with a message passed along by a relative or friend. Breaking this is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 25-10-43). Please don't pass along notes, calls or texts for them.
• 24/7 testing. A judge may order breath tests twice a day, an alcohol bracelet, urine tests or a drug patch (SDCL 1-11-20). The law caps fees: $3 per breath test, $10 per urine test, $70 per patch, and $10 a day for a bracelet plus up to $50 each to put it on and take it off. A missed or failed test can mean arrest and a stay with no bond until a judge hears it. Ask the Sheriff's Office where testing happens in the county.
• A second case or warrant. A charge from another county or court needs its own release.
• Probation. Beadle County Court Services supervises probation from 455 4th Street SW, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-7161.
• Federal or ICE holds. Paying state bond leaves these in place.

Call the jail at 605-353-8424 and have staff list each hold first.

The state constitution makes every person bailable. Only a capital case, where death is a possible penalty, falls outside that rule, and only when the evidence of guilt is very strong (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 8). So almost anyone booked into the jail has a right to some path out.

Release can still come with tough strings. A judge may set conditions that keep the person in jail until they can meet them, after weighing danger to others and the chance of flight (SDCL 23A-43-4). Under Marsy's Law, victims get a say at any release hearing (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 29).

The lawyers who argue for the State on bond work at the Beadle County State's Attorney's Office, 450 3rd St SW, Suite 108, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-8430. The office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

There are two main routes:

1. A 24-hour review. If the conditions can't be met and the person is still jailed a full day after the release hearing, they may request a review (SDCL 23A-43-8).
2. A circuit court motion. If a magistrate judge set the conditions, a circuit judge can change them (SDCL 23A-43-14). A judge may also amend conditions at any time (SDCL 23A-43-7).

The defense lawyer usually files the request. Help by gathering pay stubs, a lease or utility bill, letters about family ties, and what the family could really pay. In an alcohol case, offering to join 24/7 testing may ease the judge's worries. For questions about filing, call the Clerk of Courts at 605-353-7165.

During the first appearance, the judge explains two options: hire a lawyer, or ask the court to assign one (SDCL 23A-4-3). Someone who can't pay should say so right then, and the judge assigns counsel (SDCL 23A-40-6).

• Lawyer fees are billed to the county that brought the case (SDCL 23A-40-8). Each county picks its own method under SDCL 23A-40-7.
• Repayment to the county can be ordered later, even when the charge is dismissed or the verdict is not guilty (SDCL 23A-40-10).
• The county may file a lien on property, but it can never foreclose on the person's home (SDCL 23A-40-11, 23A-40-15).
• Class 2 misdemeanors and petty offenses get no assigned lawyer if the person is free and can't be jailed for it (SDCL 23A-40-6.1).
• The state Office of Indigent Legal Services, set up in 2024, handles appeals, not trials.

To learn how lawyers are assigned locally, call the Clerk of Courts at 605-353-7165.

One courthouse in Huron hears every state criminal case from the county:

• Courthouse (circuit court and magistrate court), 450 3rd Street SW, Huron, SD 57350. The Clerk of Courts is in Suite 204, 605-353-7165, open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Magistrate court hears misdemeanors and city ordinance cases, and the first hearings and bond in felonies. Felonies then move up to circuit court.
• Drug and DUI Court, a treatment court for people with addiction, holds hearings on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. in that same courthouse. Its office is at 455 4th Street SW, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-8598.
• Federal court for this area: United States Courthouse, 400 S. Phillips Ave., Room 128, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-6600.

The court frees up bail when its conditions have been met, which most often happens once the case is closed and no hearing was missed (SDCL 23A-43-26). The same goes for a 10 percent deposit (SDCL 23A-43-3).

A missed court date is costly:

• The bail is forfeited, and the clerk sends out an arrest warrant (SDCL 23A-43-21).
• Skipping a hearing while on release for a felony or DUI is itself a Class 6 felony. On a misdemeanor charge, it is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 23A-43-31).
• A judge may set the forfeiture aside when justice allows it (SDCL 23A-43-22).

Before posting cash, ask the Clerk of Courts at 605-353-7165 whether fines, costs or lawyer fees could come out of it, and whose name the refund goes to.

Two things to settle on release day: personal items logged at booking, and whatever money remains in their jail account. Sorting both out then saves a second trip.

The jail is at 455 4th St SW, Suite 100, Huron, SD 57350. Phone 605-353-8424. Staff can explain how the jail pays out an unused balance and what paperwork a relative should bring to collect belongings. A photo ID is a must, and a signed release from the person may be needed too. Our inmate accounts page covers how deposits and refunds usually work.

A federal charge filed from here lands in the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. The clerk's office is at the United States Courthouse, 400 S. Phillips Ave., Room 128, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-6600.

• Sioux Falls, not Huron, is where a federal magistrate weighs release, usually right at the first hearing. Under 18 U.S.C. 3142, that detention decision can slide only a few days, at a lawyer's request, and jail continues during the gap.
• Housing for a federal defendant is arranged by the Marshals (U.S. Marshals Service). Their Sioux Falls office sits at 400 South Phillips Avenue, Room 216, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-4351, and can tell you which jail has them.
• Federal prosecutors file the case: U.S. Attorney's Office, P.O. Box 2638, Sioux Falls, SD 57101, 605-330-4400.
• After sentencing, find the person with the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

No. Bond only settles the state charge. An ICE detainer is its own federal request. Step by step:

1. Immigration officers send the Correction Center Form I-247A. Jails call this a detainer, or an ICE hold.
2. The form asks staff to keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. South Dakota falls under ICE's St. Paul Field Office, 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111, 612-843-8600.
4. Once ICE picks them up, they may be held at a jail on ICE's list, such as the Pennington County Jail, 307 Saint Joseph St, Rapid City, SD 57701, 605-394-6116.
5. Look them up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator.

South Dakota's 2025 law SB 7 (SL 2025, ch 100) adds one more point. Counties and cities can't adopt policies that keep their staff from sharing someone's immigration status with federal officers.

County jail is where misdemeanor sentences are served. Felony prison sentences fall under the South Dakota Department of Corrections (SDCL 22-6-1). Class 5 and Class 6 felonies are presumed to get probation, and a county jail term of up to 12 months is another option (SDCL 22-6-11, 22-6-1.1).

After a prison sentence, the state takes the person from the county jail and places them at a DOC facility.

• State inmates can be found with the DOC's online offender locator.
• The department's home base: 3200 East Highway 34, c/o 500 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3478.
• Our South Dakota state prisons page lists every state prison with details.

No. A child 10 or older who breaks the law can face a delinquency case in circuit court (SDCL 26-8C-2). Usually the child is released to a parent. Holding a child requires an intake officer to find one of the reasons in the statute, and the mildest workable option must be used (SDCL 26-8C-3). Third Circuit officers use a risk assessment tool for that call.

When detention is needed, the Sheriff's Office runs a juvenile detention center inside the Correction Center at 455 4th Street SW, Huron, SD 57350, 605-353-8424. For a youth's case to land in adult court, two things must happen: a transfer hearing, then a circuit judge's order (SDCL 26-11-4). The State's Attorney's Office handles juvenile cases and can be reached at 605-353-8430.