Geary County Detention Center

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Geary County Detention Center basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 785-238-2261

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Geary County Detention Center is a medium-security detention center located at 826 N Franklin St Junction City, KS which is operated locally by the Geary County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Geary County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Junction City Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

The Corrections Division is responsible for managing all functions related to prisoners and jail operations. Prisoner management primarily includes care, custody, and control, intake and release, housing, and transportation of prisoners. In addition to these responsibilities, the department provides a wide array of quality services including medical, mental health, food, counseling, recreation, religious, and education.

The original jail was built in 1950 and housed 21 inmates. In 1986, an expansion was completed and increased the number of beds to 82. In October of 2006 another section was added. This expansion was opened in May of 2009. The jail now has 160 beds.

The inmates are allowed to purchase calling cards while in custody which allows them phone access.

visitation Info

Geary County Detention Center – Visitation

Visitation/Communication with Inmates:

The Geary County Detention Center uses state of the art video visitation equipment while in custody. This accomplishes several things within the jail, such as high-quality monitoring and recording of all visitation sessions and minimal staff interaction to conduct the sessions. It also provides inmates and their families with a quality system to conduct their visits as well as open scheduling for the inmate’s family. Please call for visitation times (785)-762-6583

There are no phone calls allowed to come into the jail facility for the inmates. The inmates are allowed to purchase calling cards while in custody which allows them phone access.

Inmates can receive individual photographs, but no packages pictures or Polaroid photos. Inmates cannot receive any type of packages. Letters with no return address will not be given to the inmate.