Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center Records and Placement Search

Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center Overview

Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center is operated by Finney County as a secure regional juvenile detention facility. The county's Juvenile Detention Center page describes it as a hardware-secure juvenile correctional facility located in Garden City. It serves southwest Kansas courts and counties through interlocal agreements or contracts rather than functioning as a public adult inmate search facility. Adult jail custody remains under the sheriff's system led by Sheriff Steven R. Martinez.

The facility address is 507 W. Santa Fe, Garden City, KS 67846. The main phone is 620-272-3800, the fax is 620-272-3815, and the visitation phone listed in research is 620-272-3805. The county describes the center as licensed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to provide secure detention services for youth ages 10-17 who are charged with criminal-type offenses and for whom nonsecure community placement has been determined inappropriate.

The county page captured in the manifest directly matches this facility: Finney County's Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center page shows the local facility description and contact block.

The image is useful here because it is facility-specific and confirms that the juvenile center is a separate county-operated detention resource, not a subpage of the adult jail roster.

Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center Capacity and Population

The county identifies the juvenile center as a 28-bed secure facility. Unlike the adult jail, no public daily juvenile roster count, searchable youth list, aggregate demographic table, or current placement list was located in the official research materials. That absence is important: juvenile detention details are treated differently from adult jail booking information, and the facility should not be described as having a public inmate roster.

The center serves the 16th, 25th, and 26th judicial districts through county agreements and contracts. The research did not locate an official public report showing daily placements, names, charges, photos, or custody status for youth held at the facility. Public-facing copy should therefore focus on facility contact, court or attorney channels, and the restricted nature of juvenile records.

How to Check a Juvenile Placement at Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center

This facility does not feed the adult Finney County Jail inmate search. The adult roster covers current adult custody at Finney County Jail. It should not be used to find youth placements, juvenile court matters, or confidential detention information. If a parent, guardian, attorney, court officer, or agency needs to confirm a youth placement, the practical route is direct official contact with the juvenile center or the responsible court, not a public name search.

1. Start with the youth's attorney, parent or guardian contact, caseworker, or referring court if one is already involved.
2. Call the juvenile center at 620-272-3800 for general facility routing, or use 620-272-3805 for visitation-related questions documented in research.
3. Be prepared for staff to limit what can be confirmed publicly because juvenile placement, custody, and court information is restricted.
4. For adult custody questions, use Finney County Jail. For state prison, federal, or ICE custody, use those adult systems only when the person is legally in that adult category.

Kansas public access rules still matter, but they do not convert juvenile detention into an open adult-style roster. K.S.A. 45-218 gives a general right to request public records unless another law limits disclosure, and K.S.A. 45-221 contains law-enforcement and criminal-history exceptions. Juvenile court and placement information commonly involves additional privacy restrictions, so unsupported public disclosure claims should be avoided.

Finney County Jail is an adult county jail with a public current-custody roster. Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center is a secure juvenile facility with restricted placement information. The two facilities are both in Garden City and both appear in the facility map, but they serve different populations and use different access rules. A person searching for an adult booked into jail should use the sheriff's adult inmate search, jail phone, Records Division, KDOC KASPER, BOP, ICE ODLS, or VINELink depending on custody type. A person searching for a youth should not expect a public roster result.

Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center Address and Contact

The center's public contact information is separate from the adult jail's contact channels. Use the center phone for general facility questions, the visitation phone for visiting arrangements, and the responsible court or attorney for case-specific status. The Finney County directory can help route sheriff and county contacts, but it should not be treated as a juvenile custody roster.

Visiting Someone at Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center

The research provides a visitation phone number but does not provide a public fixed schedule, online scheduling portal, visit length, visitor count, dress code, or approved visitor list. Because the facility serves youth, do not assume adult jail video-visitation rules apply. Visitors should call 620-272-3805 before traveling and should expect identity checks, approval limits, and restrictions based on the youth's legal status, court orders, facility rules, and safety needs.

When the public source does not publish a schedule, the accurate approach is to say so. Listing adult jail HomeWAV hours for this center would be misleading because the juvenile page does not document that system for youth visits.

Mail, Phone, and Property at Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center

No official public mail, phone-account, commissary, or money-deposit rules for the juvenile center were located in the provided research. That means the adult jail's Keefe Commissary Network, Access Corrections, HomeWAV, and inmate trust-fund rules should not be copied onto juvenile facility instructions. For a youth placement, call the center before sending mail, money, clothing, property, books, photos, or personal items.

Intake and Placement at Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center

Juvenile detention intake is not the same as adult jail booking. The county describes the center as serving youth ages 10-17 who are charged with criminal-type offenses and for whom nonsecure community placement has been determined inappropriate. That language points to a placement decision made through juvenile courts, agencies, or authorized officials rather than an adult arrest-to-roster workflow. Youth may come from Finney County or other southwest Kansas counties served by agreement.

The facility's regional role matters because a youth held there may have a case or referring authority outside Finney County. It serves counties in the 16th, 25th, and 26th judicial districts. For case information, the responsible court, attorney, guardian, or agency may be the correct source. Public Kansas Case Search and general adult criminal-history systems should not be presented as reliable juvenile placement tools.

About Southwest Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center

The juvenile center is one of Finney County's most regionally significant custody facilities because it serves 18 counties rather than only local adult arrests. The official county page states that staff are committed to youth safety during detention and includes PREA information. That safety framing should guide how the facility is described: it is a secure detention setting for youth, not an adult inmate-search destination, mugshot source, or public booking feed.

For broader adult custody distinctions, no Kansas Department of Corrections adult prison is located in Finney County, no Bureau of Prisons institution is in the county, and ICE custody is handled through separate immigration locator rules. Those systems are relevant to adult custody confusion, but they should not be blended into juvenile detention access. When a youth's matter becomes a court issue, families should use the attorney, guardian, responsible court, or authorized agency rather than relying on adult public-record shortcuts.