A Deuel arrest can turn up on two different jail lists, so check both. A good order:

1. Enter their last name in the official inmate lookup.
2. Open the Brookings current inmate list, which that jail says it refreshes every 15 minutes. The jail sits at 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308.
3. Open the Codington current inmates file. Rows show the name, age, charges (with the South Dakota code section) and bond amount. That jail sits at 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284.
4. Read the date at the top of each file to see how current it is.
5. No luck? Try a second spelling, a maiden or earlier last name, or a nickname.

Take a breath. A Deuel name can be missing for ordinary reasons:

• Booking is still going on, or the list printed before the person reached the jail.
• They already left on a signed promise, or a sober adult collected them after a first or second DUI.
• Deputies still have them in Clear Lake, or they are in a squad car headed to Brookings or Watertown.
• A Highway Patrol trooper or some other agency made the arrest and booked them elsewhere.
• A federal or immigration matter has them in a different place.

Phone the Sheriff's Office at 605-874-8212. You'll find it inside the courthouse, first floor, 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Outside those hours, try the Brookings jail at 605-696-8308 (315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006) and the Watertown jail at 605-882-6284 (14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201).

The county runs no jail of its own. State law lets a county without one house prisoners in another county's jail under a written deal and pay the bill (SDCL 24-11-3). Both nearby jails name Deuel as a county they hold people for:

• Brookings County Detention Center, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308. Holds up to 84 adults, men and women, before trial, awaiting sentence and after sentence, at all security levels. It also runs work release and trustee programs.
• Codington County Detention Center, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284. A 96-bed regional jail for pretrial and sentenced adults. Juvenile care shares the building.

To learn which jail has a Deuel arrest, ask the Sheriff's Office at 605-874-8212, 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226.

Deuel's official state lookup carries no mugshots. The Watertown current-inmates file shows names, ages, charges and bond, without pictures. What the Brookings list includes may vary, so open it and see.

If you need a booking photo for a court or news reason, ask the jail that booked the person. Brookings answers at 605-696-8308, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006. Watertown answers at 605-882-6284, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201.

Federal booking photos usually stay private, but the U.S. Marshals sometimes publish one to catch a fugitive. Photos tied to an ICE case can be requested through ICE's records page.

Register with SAVIN. The Attorney General's office offers it at no cost, around the clock. It tracks custody status and location. It can also notify you when that status changes, such as a release.

For sign-up help, phone 844-299-4608, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central time. Juvenile cases are outside SAVIN.

South Dakota starts with the mildest option, often a signed promise to return (SDCL 23A-43-2). In the Third Circuit, a judge sets bond by phone for felonies and for simple assault, stalking and order violations, between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Class 2 misdemeanors go out on a promise. After a first or second DUI, a sober adult can take the driver home.

• Within 48 hours, a judge must review the arrest and find probable cause. Without that ruling, the host jail must let the Deuel prisoner go.
• The Brookings jail accepts bond through its lobby kiosk or its card deposit site.
• Domestic arrests come with a strict no-contact rule (SDCL 25-10-43). Before the first hearing, the Deuel defendant must not reach out to the person named as the victim or to others who live there. Passing along a note for them breaks the rule too.

Fees, steps and sample amounts are on our bail and release page.

On the Watertown list, every charge appears with its South Dakota law number. In Brookings, staff can read the charge to you at 605-696-8308.

After a case is filed, the free Find a Court Date tool pulls it up by name. A record search summary costs $20 per search. The Deuel clerk can help as well, at 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226, 605-874-2120.

Class 1 misdemeanors bring as much as a year in jail. Felonies run from Class 6, which can mean two years, up to Class A, which carries life or death (SDCL 22-6-1, 22-6-2).

The judge covers counsel at the first appearance. A Deuel defendant without money for a lawyer simply asks for one, and the judge appoints counsel (SDCL 23A-40-6). The county foots the bill, though a judge may later order some of it repaid (SDCL 23A-40-10).

Family members can help by tracking the hearing date and gathering pay and household facts the lawyer may ask for. The clerk can name the appointed lawyer: 605-874-2120, 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226.

Brookings (315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308) offers video visits only. In its lobby, they run Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon, and Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. Book each lobby visit a full day early through the phone company's website; the jail allows no exceptions. Visits from your own phone use the company's free app and cost $0.25 a minute.

Watertown (14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284) allows face-to-face visits:

• Not yet sentenced: Monday and Friday noon to 4 p.m., and Wednesday noon to 4 p.m. for close family only.
• Sentenced: Tuesday 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday noon to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. for close family only.
• Video visits are offered every day.
• No visits from anyone held there in the past six months, or anyone on probation or parole.

More tips are on our visiting page.

Yes. Both host jails use a lobby kiosk plus the same online deposit service.

• Brookings, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308: cash or card at the kiosk, card online. Cash deposits cost $3. Card deposits cost $3 or 10 percent, whichever is more. Care packages can be bought on the deposit site. Mailed cash, checks or currency are refused.
• Watertown, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284: cash or card at the kiosk, with a fee. Store orders close Friday at 7 a.m. and are handed out the next Tuesday.

Our deposits page and commissary page go into more detail.

Each host jail sets up calls and messages its own way.

• Brookings, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006: a voice message line, 605-305-4530, works during the hours people held there can use the phones. Minutes for calls are bought on the phone company's website.
• Watertown, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284: video, voice, text and electronic messages run through the jail's vendor. Prisoners there may shift store money over to pay for calls.

For account setup, open our page on calls or our page on messages.

Each jail has its own address rules.

• Brookings: personal letters have gone through an outside scanning center since February 1, 2026. Address them like this: Brookings County Jail - SD, Inmate [full name], 1533 S 42nd Street, Suite 200, Grand Forks, ND 58201. Anything sent straight to the jail is returned. Include a return address, use a standard envelope, and skip staples and packages. Photos are allowed if they are not graphic. Legal mail still goes to 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006.
• Watertown: write the person's name on mail to 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201. Call 605-882-6284 to ask about rules.

For Brookings, books need paper covers and must ship from the publisher or an approved store. Our mail page has more.

Ask the jail how items taken at booking are stored and handed back. Rules for dropping things off differ a lot.

• Brookings, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308: no drop-offs or packages, except medical items the jail nurse okays first. The jail gives out basic clothing and hygiene items, and extras come from the store.
• Watertown, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284: drop-off and pickup Tuesday 6 to 10 p.m., Wednesday and Friday noon to 4 p.m., Sunday noon to 10 p.m. Allowed items include plain socks, underwear and T-shirts, up to 4 photos, legal papers, and up to 3 soft-cover books.

Call before bringing anything.

Call the jail holding them as soon as you can and describe the problem.

• Brookings, 315 7th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-696-8308, keeps a full-time nurse on staff, offers medical care at all hours, and provides mental health counseling.
• Watertown, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284, accepts medicine at any hour. It must be a current prescription in the original bottle, and medical staff check it before handing it out.

Give staff the medicine name and dose, plus the prescribing doctor's number. Tell staff plainly if you fear the person may hurt themselves. For an emergency, dial 911.

The Sheriff's Office serves warrants all over the county. It works from the courthouse at 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226, 605-874-8212. For Deuel court records, the Clerk of Courts answers at 605-874-2120 with a name or case number. On UJS ePayments, a case will show if it has an active warrant. For statewide lists, see the Corrections Most Wanted page for state escapees and the Sex Offender Registry. Phone a lawyer before you do anything. Going to the court that signed the warrant with that lawyer along beats waiting to be picked up.

Find a Court Date is free. Enter a name or a case number, or pull up the whole Deuel docket for any workday from today through nine business days out.

The clerk answers too, at 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226, 605-874-2120, weekdays 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Lots of first hearings are held by video from the jail. Every stage of a Deuel case gets its own section in our criminal court guide.

A federal case from Deuel is heard in Aberdeen, at 102 Fourth Avenue SE, Aberdeen, SD 57401. A quick federal hearing then decides if the Deuel prisoner goes home or stays locked up while the case moves (18 U.S.C. 3142).

• A federal prisoner awaiting trial is placed by the U.S. Marshals. Reach the Aberdeen office at 102 Southeast 4th Avenue, Suite 409, Aberdeen, SD 57401, 605-226-1794.
• For the court clerk, call Sioux Falls: 400 S. Phillips Ave., Room 128, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-6600.
• After sentencing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator shows where they are.

Immigration agents can ask the host jail to keep a Deuel prisoner past release. The steps usually go like this:

1. The agency asks the host jail to hold the Deuel prisoner, using a detainer called Form I-247A.
2. Once that paper arrives, the host jail may hold the Deuel prisoner up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. The ICE St. Paul Field Office sends officers to take custody. The office is at 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111, 612-843-8600.
4. Look them up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator using their name and birth country.

SB 7 (SL 2025, ch 100), a 2025 law, bars counties and cities here from limiting what they tell federal officers about immigration status.

A felony prison term belongs to the South Dakota Department of Corrections.

• Run a name or DOC number through the DOC offender locator.
• Browse the facilities on our South Dakota state prisons page.
• Phone the DOC at 605-773-3478. The DOC campus at 3200 East Highway 34 takes mail c/o 500 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501.

Most teens are sent home to a parent, and an intake officer decides if detention is truly needed (SDCL 26-8C-3). Juvenile cases are heard in circuit court.

A juvenile unit operates inside the Codington jail building, 14 1st Ave Southeast, Watertown, SD 57201, 605-882-6284. To learn where a Deuel teen is, call Court Services, 314 Sixth Avenue, Suite 6, Brookings, SD 57006, 605-688-4208.

The Sheriff's Office says it serves more than 4,312 people across 637 square miles. These agencies may arrest someone here:

• Deuel County Sheriff's Office, first floor of the courthouse, 408 4th Street West, Clear Lake, SD 57226, 605-874-8212. Answers calls countywide, in Clear Lake and the smaller towns too, and handles prisoner transport. For an emergency, call 911.
• South Dakota Highway Patrol, District One (Aberdeen; covers Watertown and the Glacial Lakes area), PO Box 1797, Aberdeen, SD 57402-1797, 605-626-2286.
• South Dakota Highway Patrol, District Two (Sioux Falls; covers Brookings), 5316 West 60th Street North, Sioux Falls, SD 57107, 605-367-5700.

Think a town officer made the arrest? Deputies can check who booked the person.