Finney County Jail Inmate Search and Roster Records

Finney County Jail Overview

Finney County Jail is operated by the Finney County Sheriff's Office in Garden City. The jail is part of the Law Enforcement Center, a local public-safety building that also houses other law-enforcement operations. Sheriff Steven R. Martinez is identified in the research as the county sheriff, and the jail division is the custody arm for adult detainees under county control. The official jail address is 304 N. Ninth Street, Garden City, KS 67846, and the direct jail phone is 620-272-3756.

The Sheriff's Jail Division page describes the facility as a combination jail that uses both direct-supervision and linear housing styles. It was built in 1982 and expanded around 2000-2001, increasing capacity from the original 50 beds to 220 beds. The jail holds adult pretrial detainees, sentenced county prisoners, municipal prisoners, warrant arrests, and people lodged for other state, federal, city, or immigration-related authority when the person is actually committed to the Finney County facility.

Finney County Jail Capacity and Population

The most stable official number for this facility is its rated capacity. The Sheriff's Jail Division page gives a 220-bed capacity after the expansion from the original 50-bed jail. A public roster count observed during research on June 13, 2026 showed 94 inmates, but that was only a point-in-time website count and should not be treated as a permanent population figure. The roster can change throughout the day as people are booked, released, bonded out, transported, or transferred.

Using those two figures only as a calculation, the jail was at about 43 percent of rated capacity at the inspection moment. The county's broader detention planning materials focus less on crowding and more on building condition, plumbing, flooding, jail operations above offices, and the planned replacement detention center.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Finney County Jail

For a person who may be in current adult county custody, start with the sheriff's Finney County Jail inmate search. The public roster is free and is described by the sheriff's FAQ as updated regularly throughout the day. It is the correct lookup channel for current Finney County Jail custody, not for youth placements, sentenced Kansas prison custody, or people already moved into a Bureau of Prisons facility.

1. Open the sheriff's inmate search page and use the visible search fields.
2. Search by name, or use the booking number if it is available from paperwork or a prior roster entry.
3. Check whether the result is a current Finney County Jail entry and compare age, sex, race, booking number, arresting agency, and date.
4. If no result appears, call the jail at 620-272-3756 or check the proper outside system for a release, transfer, federal hold, ICE custody, or sentenced-prison movement.

The adult roster entries inspected showed name, mugshot or roster image, booking number, charge line, bond, arresting agency, booking date and time, age, sex, and race. Housing unit, full date of birth, release date, court date, property inventory, and medical details were not visible in the public roster entries.

A missing name on the Finney roster does not prove there was no arrest. It may mean the person was released, moved, never booked into Finney County Jail, or is held under a different custody system. Kansas state prisoners are searched through KDOC KASPER after transfer to state corrections. Sentenced federal inmates are searched through the BOP inmate locator. Immigration custody can require the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, especially because ICE inspection records show oversight interest in Finney County Jail.

Finney County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail line for custody status, visiting questions, and practical facility questions. Use the Records Division for non-online reports, extracted report data, older booking materials, or a Kansas Open Records Act request. The sheriff's Records Division page lists Monday-Friday public counter hours of 7 a.m.-5 p.m. for records work, while the county directory lists jail operations as 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Visiting Someone at Finney County Jail

Finney County Jail visitation is video-based through HomeWAV. Family and friends register through the web-based visitation system and may use video stations in jail housing units, the jail lobby, or a home computer. The Sheriff's Office says this format allows more visits, reduces travel, and reduces staffing burdens. Visits for family and friends are up to 20 minutes, and the last visit begins at 10 p.m.

Attorneys, clergy, and other professional visitors may use internet visits or a secure visitation booth that allows private discussion. Under limited circumstances, the sheriff's visitation page says face-to-face professional visits may occur inside the jail. Confirm approval, identification requirements, and any current access limits before traveling to the Law Enforcement Center.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Finney County Jail

Official research did not locate a detailed public mail-rules page for Finney County Jail. Before sending mail or a package, call 620-272-3756 and ask what name, booking number, return address, paper, envelope, photo, publication, and package rules are currently enforced. For money and commissary, the sheriff's booking and trust-fund page is more specific: inmate money is placed into an in-house trust account, commissary is handled by Keefe Commissary Network, and deposits are accepted through Access Corrections online, by phone, or at the lobby kiosk.

Booking and Intake at Finney County Jail

The jail booking process begins when an arresting agency brings a person to the facility or lodges a warrant, detainer, municipal hold, or other custody authority. Finney County's booking page gives a local technology detail: the Sheriff's Office says it was one of the first sheriff's offices in Kansas to use a Cross Match live-scan fingerprint machine, sending fingerprints and arrest data electronically to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Automated Fingerprint Identification System. That means the jail intake path includes identification, property collection, fingerprints, booking photo, charge or warrant entry, trust-account setup, medical screening, classification, and housing placement.

The public roster may update after processing, but the sheriff does not publish an exact number of minutes before a booking appears. The booking entry is not the same as a court case file. Formal charges after arrest are handled by the prosecutor and court, while custody, bond fields, booking numbers, and current roster visibility are jail records.

About Finney County Jail

Finney County Jail has a distinct local building issue because the jail sits above other public-safety offices in the Law Enforcement Center. County detention planning materials describe repeated water and sewage incidents tied to jail plumbing and operations above sheriff and police offices. The county's 2026 detention-center request for qualifications describes a planned 56,575-square-foot replacement detention center near Kansas Avenue and VFW Road with 200 inmate beds, kitchen, laundry, multipurpose room, administrative support, site work, parking, and future expansion provisions. That project should be treated as planned, not as the currently operating jail.

Current official program detail is limited to medical care, visitation, commissary and trust funds, and PREA reporting. Medical care includes nurse evaluation, medication coordination, appointments for additional care when needed, and co-pays that may be deducted from trust accounts. The sheriff's PREA page lists reporting options and notes that allegations are reviewed, assigned for investigation, and classified as substantiated, unsubstantiated, or unfounded. No official GED, vocational, work-release, tablet, religious-service schedule, or formal grievance page was located in the research materials.