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Grant County Jail Overview

Grant County Jail is a sheriff-operated county jail located in Ulysses, the county seat. The facility serves the local jail function for Grant County arrests and holds. Official county research did not locate a separate work-release building, annex, city jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center in Grant County. That means the Grant County Jail is the local point to check first when a recent arrest occurred in the county.

The official sheriff page says the Sheriff's Office operates the Grant County Jail and also handles law enforcement, emergency response, service of court papers, District Court processes, offender registry work, fingerprinting, and VIN inspections. Sheriff James Biddle is listed as sheriff. The office was established in 1888 and is an elected county office, which helps explain why jail custody, court service, and records questions often begin at the sheriff's office rather than at a statewide agency.

The Grant County Sheriff's Office page shows the official jail-operator contact block.

The sheriff page confirms that the jail function belongs to the Grant County Sheriff's Office, which is the key starting point for local custody questions.

Grant County Jail Population

The best sourced facility number is the rated capacity. The official staff page says Grant County Jail can hold up to 40 prisoners, was built in the 1970s, and is staffed by four full-time jail deputies working two 12-hour shifts. The same page says the jailer is primarily responsible for prisoner safety during incarceration, jail maintenance, and efficiency. Current population, average daily population, annual bookings, and pretrial/sentenced splits were not published in the official sources reviewed.

Check Grant County Jail Custody

No official Grant County online jail roster was located on the county website. The correct local lookup path is direct contact with the sheriff, jail, or records contact. For a current Grant County Jail inmate check, use a full legal name, date of birth if known, arresting agency, and approximate arrest date or time. If a person has already moved from local jail to state prison, use KASPER instead of the jail phone line.

1. Call Grant County Jail or the Sheriff's Office at 620-356-3500 and ask whether the person is currently booked or held.
2. Give a full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and whether the arrest involved the sheriff, Ulysses Police, or another agency.
3. Ask whether a bond, warrant, no-bond hold, or outside-agency hold affects release.
4. For filed charges, search Kansas Case Search or contact the Grant County District Court clerk.
5. For state prison or KDOC supervision, search KASPER; for federal or immigration custody, use BOP or ICE.

Grant County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone line for custody, booking, visitation, mail, bond, and release questions that require current facility information. Official sources did not publish a separate jail lobby schedule, booking desk schedule, records fee schedule, or accepted bond-payment method. Call before travel, especially when a visitor plans to use the lobby kiosk or ask about bond.

Grant County Jail Visits

Grant County's official sheriff FAQ gives a clear visitation rule: jail visits are digital, and the jail does not offer live in-person visits. Visits may be done from home or through the kiosk in the Grant County Law Enforcement Center lobby. Visitors must be 18 or accompanied by a parent or guardian. The FAQ did not publish a vendor name, schedule, cost, visit length, cancellation rule, or approval timeline.

The official sheriff FAQ is the source for the digital-only visit rule.

The FAQ is narrow, so schedule, account, and kiosk access details should be confirmed by phone before a visitor makes plans.

Grant County Jail Mail

Official Grant County pages did not publish a mailing format, banned-item list, scanned-mail rule, phone vendor, commissary vendor, deposit website, deposit fee, tablet program, or attorney-visit rule. Do not send money, books, cards, or photos based on assumptions. Call the jail first and ask for the current inmate mailing format, whether a booking number is needed, what forms of mail are accepted, and whether money deposits must be made through a vendor, kiosk, money order, or another approved channel.

Grant County Jail Booking

Grant County does not publish a step-by-step booking manual. A research-supported local pathway starts with arrest by the sheriff, Ulysses Police, or another law-enforcement agency, followed by transport to the Grant County Jail or Law Enforcement Center area. Jail staff then handle intake, property, identification, screening, warrant or charge confirmation, and housing under the sheriff's custody. The staff page supports that jail deputies focus on prisoner safety, jail maintenance, and facility efficiency.

After booking, the court side runs separately. The Grant County District Court is the local trial court for criminal cases, while the County Attorney reviews law-enforcement referrals and decides what formal charges to file. Jail staff can speak to custody and release status. The court record is the better source for filed charges, hearing dates, later bond orders, and case outcomes.

Booking

Jail intake after an arrest.

Classification

Custody or security review used for placement in the jail.

Hold

A court or outside-agency reason that may block release.

PR bond

Release on personal recognizance, usually based on conditions rather than full cash payment.

Transfers From Grant County Jail

A person sentenced to Kansas state prison is no longer searched as a local Grant County Jail inmate. The lookup moves to the Kansas Department of Corrections and KASPER. KASPER may show location and status and is updated each working day, excluding weekends. It is not a complete criminal history and should not be used as a substitute for official court or KBI records.

Federal and immigration custody are also separate. BOP locates sentenced federal prisoners from 1982 to the present, while ICE ODLS is used for immigration detention. A federal pretrial detainee may not appear in BOP, and an immigration transfer may need confirmation from the jail if the information is releasable. Kansas VINE can help with custody notification, but it is not a booking roster or court docket.

About Grant County Jail

Grant County Jail is small, local, and closely tied to the Law Enforcement Center. Official details that make the facility distinct include its 1970s construction, 40-prisoner capacity, four full-time jail deputies, two 12-hour shifts, and the food-service note that the jailer prepares breakfast while noon and evening meals are transported from the local care home. County commissioners had also researched remodeling the present jail or building new, with architects expected to assess options and probable costs, but no final population figure or project outcome was published in the research sources.