Lookup Wilson County Jail Inmates

Wilson County Jail Overview

Wilson County Jail is the primary detention facility identified in the Wilson County facility map. The official county sheriff page places the Wilson County Sheriff's Office at 925 Pierce St. in Fredonia and gives the same public phone line for sheriff and jail contact. The sheriff is Harold "Pete" Kuhn, and the undersheriff is Kenneth T. Robinson. Kansas law makes the sheriff responsible for the county jail and the prisoners held there.

The jail is a county-jail facility, not a KDOC prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. It serves local custody needs for people arrested in Wilson County, people awaiting court action, people serving local jail sentences, and people committed to sheriff custody by lawful authority. Fredonia and Neodesha municipal courts are listed by the 31st Judicial District, but no separate municipal jail roster or detention facility was located in the research.

Wilson County Jail Population

Wilson County does not publish a current jail population count, average daily population, rated bed capacity, or public jail dashboard in the official online source set reviewed. The only facility-specific figure found in a high-authority table lists Wilson Co. Jail with 37 prisoners on a survey date of 12/31/2013. That is a historical prisoner count, not a current census and not a rated-capacity figure.

Because the current count is not posted, anyone checking whether a person is held at Wilson County Jail should use the jail phone line and Kansas VINE rather than trying to infer custody from older population data.

Look Up Wilson County Jail Inmates

No official Wilson County, Kansas online jail roster was located. The correct Wilson County Jail lookup method is therefore a custody-contact chain. Start with the jail for current custody, then use state, federal, or court tools only when the case has moved beyond local jail booking.

1. Call Wilson County Jail at 620-378-3622. Ask whether the person is in custody, whether bond has been set, what name spelling is used, and whether a transfer has occurred.
2. Search Kansas VINELink for custody status and register for status-change notification when available.
3. Use the Wilson County KORA request page for written booking records, jail calendar entries, roster extracts, or booking-photo requests.
4. Search Kansas Case Search for formal court charges after the prosecutor files the case.
5. Use KASPER only after a person is sentenced to Kansas Department of Corrections custody or state supervision.

The Wilson County inmate records page explains the full county, state, federal, and ICE lookup split.

Wilson County Jail Address

The county source set gives the public contact point for Wilson County Jail through the sheriff's office. The county contacts page also lists Wilson County Dispatch at the same Pierce Street address with a separate dispatch phone. Use the jail or sheriff number for custody and jail-record questions, and confirm any nonemergency dispatch use before calling.

Visit Wilson County Jail

Wilson County does not publish a jail visitation schedule in the official online source set reviewed. Call 620-378-3622 before travel to ask about current visiting days, sign-up rules, visitor approval, government photo ID, minors, dress code, phones, bags, lockers, arrival windows, holiday changes, and lockdown status. Attorney visits may have different access rules than public visits.

Wilson County Jail Mail Money

Wilson County did not publish detailed jail mail rules, publication rules, rejected-mail rules, inmate phone vendors, or public money-deposit fees in the official online source set. The research located a Tiger Commissary vendor page for Wilson County Sheriffs Office in Fredonia, Kansas, but the county page did not publish a matching fee schedule. Confirm custody, accepted payment methods, and fees before sending money or ordering commissary.

Wilson County Jail Booking

Wilson County does not publish a local booking handbook, but the researched process is straightforward. A person arrested by the sheriff, city police, Kansas Highway Patrol, or another agency may be transported to Wilson County Jail if local custody is required. Intake can include identity confirmation, property inventory, search, fingerprints, booking photo, medical and safety screening, warrant checks, hold checks, and entry into the jail calendar or booking system.

Booking information is not the same as formal court charges. The Wilson County Attorney decides what charges to file for state criminal cases. After charges are filed, case records are searched through Kansas Case Search or by contacting Wilson County District Court. A bond or hold status should be confirmed with the jail or court because no local bond-payment page was found.

Wilson County Jail Records

The Wilson County KORA route is the written path for records that are not available by phone. Kansas law requires public agencies to act on open-records requests as soon as possible and no later than the third business day after receipt, though records may be delayed, redacted, denied under an exemption, or subject to lawful fees. A good request identifies the person, approximate booking date, arresting agency if known, and requested record type.

Useful requested record names include jail roster record, jail calendar entry, booking sheet, commitment record, discharge record, and booking photograph. Kansas Attorney General guidance states that jail rosters and police blotters are open, while mugshots and standard arrest reports are not required to be open and may be discretionarily closed under K.S.A. 45-221.

Wilson County Court Transfers

After a jail arrest, the court path usually moves through first appearance, bond conditions, prosecutor review, and filed charges. Wilson County District Court is at 615 Madison, Room 214, in Fredonia, and the court phone is 620-378-4533. The 31st Judicial District page lists court hours as Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

State prison custody begins only after a state sentence to KDOC custody. No KDOC prison is located in Wilson County, so a sentenced person will usually leave the local jail path and appear in KASPER after transfer or state processing. Federal prisoners use BOP systems, and immigration detainees use ICE systems. Wilson County Jail may know that a hold exists, but the next custody location may be outside the county.

Directions to Wilson County Jail

Wilson County Jail is at 925 Pierce St., Fredonia, KS 66736. Fredonia is the county seat. The courthouse and county attorney are at 615 Madison St., so visitors should not assume all jail services are handled at the courthouse. Use the Pierce Street address for jail custody, visiting, and sheriff contact questions.

Visitors coming from US-400 or other regional roads should navigate directly to the jail address. Official parking, public-transit, ADA-entry, and visitor-entry details were not published online. Confirm parking, entrance rules, allowed property, and arrival time before travel.

The Wilson County inmate population page places the jail in the broader local custody and state corrections context.