Thomas County KS Jail

Thomas County KS Jail basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 785-460-4570

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Thomas County KS Jail is a medium-security detention center located at 225 North Court Ave Colby, KS which is operated locally by the Thomas 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. Thomas County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Colby Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

Can I bring an inmate clothes, stamps, toiletries, etc.?

Due to items available on our commissary list, we do not accept outside items.

Can I bring an inmate their prescribed meds?

Medication may be brought in to an inmate if it is prescribed by a doctor. The bottle must be correctly labeled by the pharmacy and the seal can not be tampered with. Tylenol, Aspirin, and IBU can be purchased from our office.

How can I contact and inmate?

If you call our office and request to talk to an inmate, we can NOT transfer calls back to their phones. By policy we can NOT give messages either. They have a separate phone system that they have access to where they can call out from. To call out they can either call collect or buy calling cards through the office commissary. Phone cards cannot be brought in from the outside; they will not work on the inmate phone system. Phone cards that are purchased through our office can be used when they get out if there is time remaining on the card. Most commonly an inmate will receive mail if someone would like to get a hold of them from the outside. Incoming mail to an inmate needs to be labeled as followed:

Inmate Name
Thomas County Jail
225 N Court Ave
Colby KS 67701

visitation Info

Thomas County Jail – Visitation

• Visitation will only be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 06:00 p.m. and 09:00 p.m.
  • All visitors must check in before 08:30 p.m. 
  • Visitation will end at 09:00 p.m. regardless of pending visitors. 
  • Each visitor will only be allowed 15 minutes of visitation unless there are no pending visitations. 
    • Once another visitor arrives and your visitation has been at least 15 minutes, it will be terminated.
    • Visitation is not guaranteed at 15 minutes.
• ALL visitors must present photographic identification. 
  • This includes, but is not limited to, State issued ID, Passport, School ID card, Credit/Debit cards with photos, etc. 
  • Those under 14 years of age that do not have photo ID must have another form of ID, such as a birth certificate or social security card.
• Juvenile’s (those under 18 years of age) must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.  
  • If the juvenile is visiting his or her parent or legal guardian, the juvenile must be accompanied by another individual 18 years of age or older.  Both must accompany each other in the visitation room and will share their visitation 15-minute limit.
• Visitors will be denied visitation if the visitor has been in custody of this facility for more than a book and release in the past 30 days. 
• A "book and release" is if you were arrested, booked into jail, and then immediately released without being placed in inmate housing. 
• Visitors will be denied visitation if the visitor is on probation or parole.
• Visitors will be denied visitation if the visitor has any wants or warrants, regardless if they are extraditable.