Lyman County Jail Inmate Bail & Bonds

A judge, or sometimes a clerk magistrate. Under state law the officer takes the arrested person to the closest magistrate who is free, "without unnecessary delay" (SDCL 23A-4-1). Video from the jail counts. At that hearing the person learns the charge, hears about lawyers and staying quiet, and gets release terms (SDCL 23A-4-3).

Lyman sits in the Sixth Judicial Circuit. Judges there use a Findings of Fact on Bond Hearing sheet. It records two choices in writing: will a bare promise get this person back to court, and are they a danger to anybody? On lots of charges a clerk magistrate simply reads the amount off the circuit's price list.

No statute names an hour count for the hearing. For timing, ring the Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277.

South Dakota tells its judges to begin small. Step one is release on a signed pledge (personal recognizance) or on an unsecured bond, which costs nothing unless a court date is skipped (SDCL 23A-43-2). A judge reaches for more only when that falls short, and must stop at the first rung below that does the job (SDCL 23A-43-3):

• a responsible person or group takes charge of them;
• travel limits, a set home address, or people to stay away from;
• mental health treatment terms;
• a 10 percent cash deposit (the cap), handed back after every rule is followed;
• a bondsperson's surety bond, or full cash instead;
• any extra term the judge writes in.

Things weighed include the crime, the strength of the state's evidence, any mental health assessment, and the chance of flight or harm (SDCL 23A-43-4). On the Sixth Circuit sheet, bond types are personal recognizance, third-party, cash or surety, cash only, or none.

Clerks in this circuit work from a fine and bond schedule for 2027, live from July 1, 2026. A clerk magistrate can grant personal recognizance or land somewhere inside each band:

• DUI, first offense: $225 to $1,000
• Most other Class 1 misdemeanors: $95 to $1,000
• Marijuana, two ounces or under: personal recognizance
• DUI, third or later (a felony): $1,000 to $5,000
• Burglary or grand theft: $1,000 to $10,000
• Robbery: $1,000 to $25,000
• Murder, first-degree manslaughter, kidnapping: no clerk amount; a judge hears it first
• Domestic abuse: only a judge picks the amount and the rules

Class 2 misdemeanors that the ticket list skips also wait for a judge. The exact number on one file comes from the Clerk of Courts, 605-869-2277. The reasons bond charts differ across South Dakota, and what else shapes the number, are on our state page for Kennebec readers.

Finding the right lobby comes first. Then:

1. Ring the Sheriff's Office, on the bottom floor of 300 S. Main Street, Kennebec, SD 57544, at 605-869-2267, and learn where the person was booked.
2. Phone that jail. Likely picks: the Hughes County Jail, 3100 E. Highway 34, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-7475, or the Winner City Jail, 217 E. 3rd Street, Winner, SD 57580, 605-842-3328.
3. Give the jailer their whole name and birthday. Confirm the dollar figure, the charge, and if any judge still has to approve the release.
4. Find out which payments that lobby handles and exactly how a check should be made out.
5. Show up with government photo ID and hang on to the paperwork you get.

Per its county page, the Hughes jail lets anybody 18 or older post bond, as long as they carry ID.

Possibly. Sixth Circuit policy has the Clerk of Courts hold cash bonds until a judge orders them released. Whether that window will accept a fresh bond on a local arrest, or whether you must pay where the person sits, is a question for the clerk.

• Clerk of Courts: 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277. Hours run 9:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Postal mail: PO Box 235, Kennebec, SD 57544-0235.

The state's card site, UJS ePayments, lists fines, court costs and restitution, but not bail, so plan to pay bond another way. One bonus: a case search there flags an active warrant.

Each place sets its own list, so confirm by phone before the drive:

• Hughes County Jail, 3100 E. Highway 34, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-7475. Its page lists cash; a cashier's check or postal money order payable to "Hughes County Jail"; a bail bond company; or a credit card on courtmoney.com, the online payment service the jail names.
• Winner City Jail, 217 E. 3rd Street, Winner, SD 57580, 605-842-3328. Staff can say which forms they take for bond.
• Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277. Ask what the counter accepts.

Check the final total on a card screen before tapping pay. Cash should never go in an envelope.

Bondspersons hold a license from the South Dakota Division of Insurance, on the second floor of 124 South Euclid Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3563. That office checks licenses and takes complaints. For names, the court system posts an official roster of bail bond agents.

• Anyone writing bonds unlicensed commits a Class 6 felony (SDCL 58-22-4).
• No jailer, deputy, officer or sheriff may profit from a bail bond in any way (SDCL 58-22-3).
• Drumming up bond clients where prisoners are kept is off limits (SDCL 58-22-32).
• Ask for the fee, plus any collateral deal, written down and signed, with a receipt.
• Family members can stand as surety too, but they list their property and debts under oath, and a judge has to agree it is enough. Practicing lawyers are barred from it (SDCL 23A-43-20).

One paid bond clears one case. Other snags include:

• Extra warrants. Paper from somewhere else, another county or another state, has to be dealt with on its own.
• Domestic abuse arrests. Release waits for a judge's own ruling on bond and conditions; deputies can't let the person go sooner (SDCL 25-10-40). Until that first court date, the person has to steer clear of the alleged victim and everybody under that roof, even a message carried by a cousin or friend. Breaking it is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 25-10-43). Families should not relay notes or calls.
• Probation. A new charge can stir up a probation case. Court Services in Pierre supervises probation for this county: 104 E. Capitol Ave., Suite 3, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3874.
• Federal or ICE holds. Neither one ends with state bond.

Before spending a dollar, have the Sheriff's Office, 605-869-2267, list every hold on file.

A judge in an alcohol, marijuana or drug case can write this program into the bond (SDCL 1-11-20). The Attorney General's office runs it. Typical setups are a breath test morning and evening, or else an alcohol bracelet, a cup for urine checks or a sweat patch. State law limits the charges:

• Breath test: $3 or less per blow (SDCL 1-11-26)
• Urinalysis: $10 or less (SDCL 1-11-27)
• Drug patch: $70 or less (SDCL 1-11-28)
• Bracelet: $10 or less daily, with install and removal fees of $50 or less each (SDCL 1-11-29)

Miss one or fail one, and deputies may arrest the person, who then sits with no bond until a judge rules. Where people from here test is a question for the Sheriff's Office at 605-869-2267. The statewide 24/7 coordinator is at 605-505-1003.

Bail is guaranteed by South Dakota's Constitution for nearly every charge. Only a death-penalty charge with strong and obvious proof is left out (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 8).

Outside that, a judge who sees a flight risk or a threat to others can still answer with a large bond or tight terms (SDCL 23A-43-4). The circuit's bond sheet does carry a no-bond box for the narrow cases the law permits. Marsy's Law lets a victim speak at any release hearing (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 29).

Arguing bond for the state is the Lyman County State's Attorney, whose office is in Chamberlain. Letters go to PO Box 746, Chamberlain, SD 57325, and calls to 605-734-9000 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.

Someone still locked up a full day past the release hearing, only because they can't meet the terms, may request a fresh look (SDCL 23A-43-8). Judges can rewrite terms whenever they choose (SDCL 23A-43-7), and a magistrate's terms can go up to circuit court for review (SDCL 23A-43-14).

1. The defense lawyer files the motion.
2. Gather pay stubs, a rental agreement, names of kids or elders who depend on them, and a frank household budget.
3. Propose terms that fix the exact worry, for example twice-daily breath tests or living under a parent's roof.
4. Learn the hearing date from the Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277.

A defendant too broke to hire counsel can ask the judge to name one (SDCL 23A-40-6). The county foots that bill (SDCL 23A-40-8). The paperwork is form UJS-224R, explained on the court system's legal help page and handed out by the Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277.

• Later on, the county can be repaid by court order, dismissal or not (SDCL 23A-40-10).
• A lien may land on property, though the homestead is safe from foreclosure (SDCL 23A-40-11, 23A-40-15).
• Petty offenses and Class 2 misdemeanors are excluded if no jail time is possible and the defendant has already been let go (SDCL 23A-40-6.1).
• South Dakota's Office of Indigent Legal Services, set up in 2024, started out on appeals rather than trials.

One courthouse handles almost all of it. The full set:

• Circuit and magistrate court: Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277. Bond hearings, misdemeanors and felonies.
• Sixth Circuit Drug & DUI Court: 8 E. Second Ave., Fort Pierre, SD 57532, 605-220-3850. Treatment-focused; a lawyer asks about eligibility.
• Lower Brule Sioux Tribe (tribal court contact): 187 Oyate Circle, Lower Brule, SD 57548, 605-473-5561. Tribal cases from the Lower Brule Reservation.
• Federal court: U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, 225 South Pierre Street, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-945-4600.

A Sixth Circuit bond money policy governs this. The Clerk of Courts keeps posted cash in its care until a judge says it may go. The circuit treats every dollar as the defendant's, no matter who handed it over. Fines, costs, restitution and lawyer fees can come off the top. Any balance goes to the defendant, or to defense counsel if the defendant signs off.

A no-show forfeits the bond (SDCL 23A-43-31) and adds a fresh charge: a Class 6 felony where the earlier release was on a felony or DUI charge, a Class 1 misdemeanor if out on a misdemeanor. A judge has power to cancel a forfeiture when justice calls for it (SDCL 23A-43-22). Bail is released once its terms are met (SDCL 23A-43-26).

Refunds run through the Clerk of Courts, 300 S. Maine St., Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2277.

Whatever the person carried in, plus money left in their jail account, stays with the jail that booked them. One phone call tells you how the balance comes back and what day the bag of belongings is ready:

• Hughes County Jail, 3100 E. Highway 34, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-7475
• Winner City Jail, 217 E. 3rd Street, Winner, SD 57580, 605-842-3328

Unsure where they were held? The Sheriff's Office, on the bottom floor of 300 S. Main Street, Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2267, knows. Collecting on someone's behalf may take a written OK from them, so ask. For the money side, our inmate deposits page walks through how accounts and refunds tend to work.

A federal judge. Cases here belong to the Central Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, 225 South Pierre Street, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-945-4600. On the Lower Brule Reservation, the Major Crimes Act sends murder, felony assault, burglary and similar crimes to federal court (18 U.S.C. 1153).

• Detention gets argued right at the first federal appearance. Defense lawyers can stall that fight five days at most; prosecutors, three (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Between arrest and verdict, the U.S. Marshals hold federal defendants. Their Pierre office: 225 South Pierre Street, Suite 425, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-224-8396.
• The Marshals rent beds in local jails. The Hughes County Jail, 3100 E. Highway 34, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-7475, holds federal prisoners under an agreement with them.
• Once a federal prison term begins, try the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

It can. Posting bond answers the state, and a detainer answers to Washington, so each moves on its own:

1. ICE, short for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, issues its detainer on Form I-247A, a request that jailers keep the person.
2. That request covers up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE agents come for the person. In this region that is the job of the ICE St. Paul Field Office, 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111, 612-843-8600.
4. Track them on the ICE Online Detainee Locator using name plus birth country.

South Dakota's 2025 SB 7 (SL 2025, ch 100) voids any county or city policy restricting talk with federal officials about someone's immigration status.

Misdemeanors mean local jail time: a year and $2,000 at most for Class 1, and 30 days and $500 for Class 2 (SDCL 22-6-2). Felony prison terms belong to the South Dakota Department of Corrections (SDCL 22-6-1), headquartered at 3200 East Highway 34, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3478.

Class 5 and Class 6 felonies carry presumptive probation (SDCL 22-6-11). A judge can also choose up to twelve months in the county lockup over prison for those two classes (SDCL 22-6-1.1).

• The DOC Offender Locator finds inmates by surname or DOC number.
• Prisons are described one by one on our South Dakota state prisons page.

Circuit court takes juvenile matters, for children age 10 and up (SDCL 26-8C-2). Usually a parent picks the child up. Keeping a child locked up is allowed only for listed reasons, and even then the softest setting that works must be used (SDCL 26-8C-3). Only a judge can bump a youth up to adult court, and only after a transfer hearing (SDCL 26-11-4).

The Sheriff's Office, on the bottom floor of 300 S. Main Street, Kennebec, SD 57544, 605-869-2267, knows where a juvenile went and when their first hearing falls. Court Services, 104 E. Capitol Ave., Suite 3, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3874, supervises juvenile probation too.