Turner County Sheriff's Office Inmate Bail & Bonds

That turns on the charge. For a long list of offenses, a clerk magistrate may fix bond at once from the state's bond list. Bigger charges need a judge. State law tells police to get anyone they arrest in front of the closest judge "without unnecessary delay" (SDCL 23A-4-1). That law sets no clock in hours, and the hearing can be held over video from the jail.

This is a First Judicial Circuit county. Its magistrate and circuit judges hear cases in the Parker courthouse. The Clerk of Courts sits at 400 S. Main Avenue, Suite 203, Parker, SD 57053, 605-297-3115, and keeps hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. Clerks there can say whether a bond exists yet and when the hearing falls.

In that first session, the judge reads out the accusation, says a lawyer can be requested and that nobody has to talk, then rules on release (SDCL 23A-4-3).

South Dakota tells its judges to begin at the bottom rung. They climb only when a lighter step would fail to get the defendant back to court (SDCL 23A-43-2, 23A-43-3). The rungs:

1. Own promise. The defendant signs and leaves. This is called personal recognizance, or PR.
2. Unsecured appearance bond: the defendant owes the amount only by skipping court.
3. Third-party custody: someone vouches and watches over the defendant.
4. Restrictions: curbs on travel, company, housing, or a mental health requirement.
5. Deposit bond: cash worth as much as one-tenth of the full bond, handed to the court and refunded after compliance.
6. Surety or cash: a licensed bondsperson stands behind the whole sum, or a family member pays all of it.
7. Anything else needed, such as sobriety testing.

Which rung fits depends on the offense, the proof, any mental health findings, the odds of flight, and risk to anyone else (SDCL 23A-43-4). Terms stay in force until a guilty plea or verdict (SDCL 23A-43-5).

Bond amounts for many charges come out of the FY27 Fine and Bond Schedule. That statewide list has applied since July 1, 2026. A sample:

• DUI, first or second: $225 to $1,000
• DUI, third or more (felony): $1,000 to $5,000
• Grand theft: $1,000 to $10,000
• Robbery: $1,000 to $25,000
• Up to two ounces of marijuana: PR
• Disorderly conduct ticket: $132.50 including costs
• Driving under suspension: $282.50 including costs
• Murder, first-degree manslaughter, kidnapping: no clerk bond, judge sets it
• Domestic abuse: set only by a judge

The ranges steer the clerk, while a judge may later revise any bond. For one defendant's figure, ring the clerk at 605-297-3115.

The jail can't simply apply the bond list. Officers holding someone for assault on a family or household member, or for violating a protection order, must alert a judge before any release. The judge then sets bond and safety terms (SDCL 25-10-40), which may require staying away, leaving the shared home, sobriety, counseling or a posted bond (SDCL 25-10-41).

Until the first court appearance, the accused has to leave the alleged victim and their household completely alone: no calls, texts or letters, and no word sent through someone else. Doing so is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 25-10-43). Families should refuse to pass along any word, because the messenger route counts too.

With no jail in the county, you start by phone, not at a front desk:

1. Ring the Sheriff's Office at 605-297-3225 during weekday office hours, or dispatch at 605-764-2664 at night. Learn the jail's name.
2. Write down the bond, each charge, the case number, and whether a judge hearing is still pending.
3. Find out who accepts the money. It may be the jail, or it may be the courthouse clerk.
4. For the Minnehaha County Jail, 305 W. 4th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, phone 605-367-4321 before making the drive. That jail's official site says bond for its inmates can be posted through CourtMoney.com.
5. Carry photo ID. Hang on to each receipt.

Court paperwork for the county flows through the Clerk of Courts, Suite 203, 400 S. Main Avenue, Parker, SD 57053, 605-297-3115. Its window is open weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Under the adopted schedule, a clerk magistrate may set bond or grant PR release (SDCL 16-12C-10).

Deputies work in the same building, phone 605-297-3225. Phone the clerk ahead. Confirm the bond can be taken there for this case, which payment the window accepts, and how fast the jail is told to release.

Doors open 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Anyone other than an officer may be searched. A firearm inside a courthouse is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 22-14-23).

Rules differ by office, so settle this on the phone first. Ask whether cash works, whether money orders or cashier's checks are OK, and the exact payee name.

• UJS ePayments (ujsepay.sd.gov) is the court's card site for fines, court costs and restitution. It can't be used for bail. Online payments start at $25 unless the balance is smaller.
• CourtMoney.com is the bond option named by the Minnehaha jail for people it holds. Its staff can walk you through it at 605-367-4321.
• Scam calls: if a stranger phones demanding cash to release your loved one, don't pay. Hang up, then reach the Sheriff's Office on your own at 605-297-3225. Cash never goes in the mail.

For a fee, a bondsperson pledges the whole bond to the court. South Dakota licenses them through its Division of Insurance, 2nd Floor, 124 South Euclid Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3563. That office checks licenses and takes complaints.

• A bondsperson who lacks a state license commits a Class 6 felony (SDCL 58-22-4).
• Officers and jail workers can't profit from any bail bond (SDCL 58-22-3).
• The law limits drumming up bond business at a jail (SDCL 58-22-32).
• Insist on a written fee agreement, and get a dated receipt for collateral.
• A relative acting as surety has to list their property under oath, and no practicing lawyer may serve as one (SDCL 23A-43-20).

For names, check the court system's bail bond agent list.

Yes. Each bond is tied to one case. Before paying, ask the holding jail to read off each hold on file. Look out for:

• A separate case, or another county's warrant, each with its own release.
• Probation. Court Services supervises it. The state gives two addresses: 210 N. Main, Suite 102, Parker, SD 57053, and Suite 207 inside the courthouse. Phone 605-297-4097 first.
• Parole, run by the state Department of Corrections, 500 East Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD 57501, 605-773-3478.
• A domestic abuse charge, which waits on a judge.
• A federal or ICE hold. A state bond does not lift it.

Judges can attach the 24/7 Sobriety Program to bond in drinking or drug cases (SDCL 1-11-20). Locally the Sheriff's Office manages it from 400 S. Main Avenue, Parker, SD 57053, 605-297-3225. Get in touch the day it is ordered.

• Breath tests: given twice daily, at 8:25 to 8:35 a.m. and again at 8:25 to 8:35 p.m.
• Scheduled testing: weekly tests and drug patches every two weeks, by appointment.
• Other methods: a monitoring bracelet, urinalysis or a sweat patch.
• Fees the Sheriff lists: $1 per test with a $1 daily state fee, $6 per day for weekly testing, $50 per drug patch. Pay ahead, or a violation is filed.

The statute sets ceilings: $3 a breath test, $10 a urinalysis, $70 a patch, and $10 a day for a bracelet with install and removal fees of $50 or less each. A blown or skipped test may bring arrest and a no-bond stay until court. The 2026 push to change these fees failed, and Parker families can find out what that bill would have done.

Yes, but rarely. Almost every defendant has a constitutional right to bail in South Dakota. The only carve-out covers capital crimes, and even then only where guilt is plain and the case is overwhelming (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 8).

A shorter no-bond wait does happen. Domestic arrests pause for a judge, and a 24/7 violation can mean sitting without bond until a hearing. A judge may also pick a steep amount or tight terms when flight or danger looks likely.

The State's Attorney, who speaks for the state on bail, is at 400 S. Main Avenue, Parker, SD 57053, 605-297-3975, open by phone or appointment. A crime victim may address the judge at any release hearing under Marsy's Law (S.D. Const. art. VI, § 29).

Three routes exist:

• Review after 24 hours. If release terms are out of reach and the defendant is still behind bars 24 hours past the release hearing, they may ask the judge to review the terms (SDCL 23A-43-8).
• A motion at any time. The judge can amend terms when circumstances shift (SDCL 23A-43-7).
• Appeal upward. Terms a magistrate set can go to a circuit judge, and from there to the Supreme Court (SDCL 23A-43-14, 23A-43-15).

Defense counsel normally files. Useful items include a pay stub or work schedule, a lease, letters from people who know the defendant, and a household budget. Volunteering for 24/7 testing sometimes calms a judge. Scheduling questions go to the clerk at 605-297-3115.

Yes. At the first hearing, the defendant can say they can't afford counsel and request one (SDCL 23A-40-6). The county foots the bill. State law lets it use a public defender office, lawyers named case by case, or lawyers on contract (SDCL 23A-40-7, 23A-40-8). The clerk at 605-297-3115 can describe the local setup.

• No lawyer has to be appointed for a person who is free and faces no jail on a petty or Class 2 misdemeanor charge (SDCL 23A-40-6.1).
• A judge may later tell the defendant to reimburse the county, win or lose (SDCL 23A-40-10).
• That debt can become a property lien. Foreclosure on a homestead is barred (SDCL 23A-40-11, 23A-40-15).
• The state Office of Indigent Legal Services, formed in 2024, started out handling appeals.

Almost all state cases begin and end under one roof:

• Turner County Courthouse, where circuit judges and magistrates both sit. Clerk of Courts, 400 S. Main Avenue, Suite 203, Parker, SD 57053, 605-297-3115. Felonies, misdemeanors, youth matters and town ordinance tickets are heard here.
• First Circuit Court Administrator, 410 Walnut St., Suite 201, Yankton, SD 57078, 605-668-3095, which manages courts across the circuit.
• James Valley Drug and DUI Court, 200 E. 4th Ave, Mitchell, SD 57301, 605-668-5459, a First Circuit treatment court. A lawyer can ask if a case from here is eligible.
• Federal court, U.S. Courthouse, 400 S. Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-6600.

Once the case's conditions are met, the court releases bail (SDCL 23A-43-26), and a deposit bond is refunded at that point (SDCL 23A-43-3). Whether court costs or fines get subtracted first is a question for the clerk at 605-297-3115. Bring the receipt and ID to collect.

A skipped court date has consequences:

• The court forfeits the bond and has an arrest warrant issued (SDCL 23A-43-21).
• Missing court after release on a felony or DUI counts as a new Class 6 felony. On a misdemeanor release, the same no-show is a Class 1 misdemeanor (SDCL 23A-43-31).
• A judge can cancel the forfeiture in the interest of justice, for example after a prompt return with a real excuse (SDCL 23A-43-22).
• Kept cash lands in the county treasury (SDCL 23A-43-25).

The jail that did the housing keeps the person's booked-in items and any jail account balance. Contact that jail about pickup times and paperwork.

For the Minnehaha jail, 305 W. 4th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-367-4321, its handbook says stored items go out in a single release per stay unless a sergeant allows another. Take ID along. For how inmate accounts usually work, see our jail account deposits page.

Under state law, a prisoner may be billed for confinement costs (SDCL 24-11-45).

A federal magistrate or district judge. Federal prosecutions from this county are assigned to the Southern Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, U.S. Courthouse, 400 S. Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-6600.

• Detention is argued at the first appearance. Postponements top out at five days when the defense wants one and three when prosecutors do. Count business days only. The defendant stays in custody while waiting (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Federal defendants awaiting trial stay in the custody of deputy U.S. marshals, often inside a county jail. Their office: 400 South Phillips Avenue, Room 216, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-330-4351.
• Federal pretrial officers prepare a bail report. Office: 314 S. Main Ave., Suite 100, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, 605-977-8900.
• After sentencing, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

No. The detainer is a federal matter, and state bond doesn't touch it. What usually happens:

1. ICE lodges Form I-247A with the holding jail.
2. The jail may keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Responsibility for South Dakota sits with the ICE St. Paul Field Office, 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111, 612-843-8600.
4. Agents may transfer the person to a facility ICE uses, such as the Pennington County Jail, 307 Saint Joseph St, Rapid City, SD 57701, 605-394-6116.
5. Look the person up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator. You'll need a name and birth country.

SB 7 (SL 2025, ch 100), passed in 2025, adds one more rule. It says towns and counties may not pass rules that keep their staff from sharing immigration facts with federal agents.

Short misdemeanor terms are done in a county jail, which for people from here is the contract jail. Class 5 and 6 felonies, the two lowest, carry a presumption of probation. A judge may order county jail instead, for one year at most (SDCL 22-6-11, 22-6-1.1).

Bigger felony terms belong to the South Dakota Department of Corrections, which takes custody after sentencing and assigns a prison.

• Look up state felony inmates on the DOC Offender Locator. People held in county jails won't appear there.
• Read about every prison on our South Dakota state prisons pages.

If detention is needed, kids ride to Sioux Falls and stay at Minnehaha County Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 4200 S. West Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, 605-367-4313. That center takes youth from 16 southeastern counties, this one among them.

• A child can face a delinquency case starting at age 10, and circuit court hears it (SDCL 26-8C-2).
• Most youth go home with a parent. Detention requires an intake officer's finding under one of the listed grounds, in the least restrictive setting (SDCL 26-8C-3).
• Trying a teen as an adult requires a transfer hearing first, then a judge's order (SDCL 26-11-4).