Bourbon County Jail Roster
The official local custody source is the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office inmate roster. The roster page inspected for the research showed current inmates, released inmate filtering, name search, date sorting, booking photos, booking numbers, age, booking date, charges, bond, and profile links. Roster examples included drug charges, domestic battery, sentenced status, other agency holds, failure to appear, probation violation, and Bourbon County arrest-warrant entries.
The roster is a jail custody tool, not a complete court-record system. Filed charges, plea history, hearings, and sentence entries belong in Kansas District Court records. For those records, use Kansas CaseSearch or the Clerk of the District Court. The roster also does not replace the Kansas Department of Corrections offender search for people in state prison after sentencing. County jail status and state custody status are separate files.
The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office homepage is one of the successful image sources assigned to this inmate records page.
The sheriff site is the local doorway for Bourbon County inmate records, jail links, alerts, most wanted information, and agency contact options.
Use the Bourbon County Inmate Roster
The roster search is best for confirming whether a person is in Bourbon County Jail custody now or appears in the released-inmate filter. Use a legal name first. If a common name produces several matches, compare booking date, age, booking number, and charge text before treating the result as the correct person. For bond, case number, or charge accuracy before posting bail, use the jail phone number listed by the sheriff because the roster itself warns that charges and bail may change after court appearances.
- Open the sheriff's inmate roster search or the current roster view.
- Enter the person's name in the Search By Name field, or use Show All to browse the current list.
- Use Current, Released, Name, Date, and booking-time sort links to narrow the Bourbon County inmate results.
- Open the profile link to review the booking number, agency, booking date, charge text, and jail caution about bond accuracy.
- Call the jail before posting bond or relying on a charge amount because roster data can change after court events.
The official roster search page is also represented in the image manifest for this Bourbon County inmate search page.
The roster interface supports both direct name searching and broader browsing through current, released, and date-sorted views.
Bourbon County Roster Fields
The sheriff roster uses simple search and filter controls rather than a long form. A person can search by name, browse all results, filter current or released inmates, and move through pages of roster entries. The field set below comes from the official roster capture in the Bourbon County research file.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search By Name | Text | No | Searches the Bourbon County inmate roster by name. |
| Name | Sort/filter link | No | Sorts or filters roster entries by name. |
| Date | Sort/filter link | No | Uses the date path on the roster. |
| Current | Filter link | No | Shows current inmates in sheriff custody. |
| Released | Filter link | No | Shows released roster entries when available. |
| Sort Newest to Oldest | Sort link | No | Orders bookings by most recent first. |
| Sort Oldest to Newest | Sort link | No | Orders bookings by oldest first. |
| Search / Show All | Button or link | No | Runs the name search or clears the filter. |
| Pagination | Links | No | Moves through page numbers, Next, and Last links. |
Note: The roster search is public, but it is not a complete Bourbon County criminal court records search.
Bourbon County Inmate Profile
A Bourbon County inmate profile can show more detail than a row on the roster. The inspected profile in the research file displayed a name header, photo, booking number, age, gender, race, arresting agency, booking date, charge text, and a jail note about changing charges and bail. The sample did not show date of birth, height, weight, eye color, hair color, housing unit, court date, release date, magistrate, statute code, or medical/protective information.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name and photo | Identifies the person shown on the public inmate profile. |
| Booking number | Lists the jail booking identifier, such as the 2026-format sample captured in research. |
| Age, gender, race | Basic public descriptors shown on the sample profile. |
| Arresting agency | Shows whether the booking agency is the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office or another agency. |
| Booking date | Shows the date and time the person was booked into Bourbon County Jail. |
| Charges | Lists public charge text such as drug, paraphernalia, warrant, or domestic battery entries. |
| Bond caution | Warns that charges and bail amounts may change and should be verified with the jail. |
Bourbon County Jail Contact
Bourbon County official sources point to the sheriff's office and jail facility in Fort Scott for local jail custody. No official capacity figure was located in the extracted sources, so capacity should not be stated as a fact. For bond, charge, roster, and case-number verification, the jail number is the most direct custody contact.
Bourbon County Sheriff's Office / Jail
293 E. 20th St.
Fort Scott, KS 66701
Jail: 620-223-2380
Sheriff's Office: 620-223-1440
Dispatch: 620-223-1700
Administrative office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Bourbon County Booking Notes
Booking begins on the sheriff side, while the court case develops through District Court or Municipal Court. The jail roster can show booking date, arresting agency, charges, and bond after the person is entered into custody records. A later court appearance can change charge status, bail, case number, or release terms. That is why the sheriff profile note tells bond companies and people posting bail to call the jail for correct bail amount, charges, and case numbers.
Some roster charge text points to warrant-related events, such as failure to appear, probation violation, arrest warrant, Fort Scott municipal warrant, or an out-of-county hold. Those entries are useful for custody status, but the issuing case record may live in Kansas CaseSearch, Fort Scott Municipal Court, or another jurisdiction. For filed charges and later disposition, use the court record rather than the jail row. For arrest-to-charge context, the Bourbon County arrest records and court charges page separates booking information from prosecutor-filed charges.
Bourbon County Visitation
The official jail communications page says all visits, messaging, emails, and phone time are handled online through InmateSales. It does not publish a separate in-person visiting schedule in the extracted text. The useful schedule table for Bourbon County is therefore a service-channel schedule, not a day-by-day in-person visiting calendar.
| Service | Provider / Place | Official Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Video visitation | InmateSales | Visits are scheduled and completed online. |
| Messaging / email | InmateSales / Chirping | Email and text-style messaging through Chirping are available. |
| Phone time | InmateSales | Funds may be added for a specific number or for general phone time. |
| In-person visits | Not published in extracted official text | The official page emphasizes online visits. |
The visitation, Chirping, messaging, and phone-time page is a successful manifest image source for Bourbon County inmate records.
The communications page ties the jail's remote visit, email, message, and phone funding channels to one official provider path.
Bourbon County Inmate Mail
The jail has separate addresses for standard nonlegal mail and legal representation mail. Standard friends-and-family mail must use the processing address: Inmate Name - Inmate ID, Bourbon County Jail, P.O. Box 76550, Highland Heights, KY 41076. Legal representation mail goes to Bourbon County Jail, Attn: Inmate Name, 293 E. 20th St., Fort Scott, KS 66701. Incoming mail must include the inmate name, inmate ID, and a return address.
Mail not sent to an approved address will be rejected. Incoming mail must be no larger than 8.5 x 11 inches, no thicker than light card stock, and able to pass through a sheet-fed scanner. Mail is opened and inspected or read for contraband and jail-rule violations. Prohibited items include stamps, blank envelopes, stationery, cash, checks, money orders, threats, plans for contraband or escape, gang code or insignia, obscene drawings or language, stickers, homemade cards, colored paper, paint, white-out, glue, glitter, and similar items. Pictures are the only permitted enclosure, up to 10 photographs per package, printed on photo paper.
The official inmate mail rules page is included as a successful image for this Bourbon County inmate records page.
The mail page is important because Bourbon County uses a scanning address for nonlegal mail and a local jail address for attorney mail.
Bourbon County Commissary Funds
The official commissary page says purchasing commissary online for inmates is no longer an option. To add money to an inmate's books, a person can go to the sheriff and jail building and use the kiosk in the foyer. The research did not locate official kiosk hours, transaction fees, accepted tender rules, or spending limits, so those details should be confirmed with the jail before travel.
The Bourbon County commissary page is the manifest source for this commissary image.
The commissary image supports the key local fact: Bourbon County directs deposits to the foyer kiosk rather than online commissary ordering.
Bourbon County App and KDOC
The Bourbon County Sheriff's Office launched the free "Bourbon County KS Sheriff" mobile app on February 20, 2026. The Apple and Google Play listings say the app includes public information for press releases, inmates, most wanted individuals, contact options, and crime tips. The app is useful when a phone is easier than the website, but the research did not verify any app-only inmate data beyond what the store listings describe.
KDOC custody is different. A person sentenced to state prison may no longer appear as a current Bourbon County jail inmate. Use the Kansas Department of Corrections for state-custody offender information, and use the Bourbon County jail roster for county pretrial, hold, sentenced-local, or recently released jail records. For victims or notification needs, the sheriff jail menu also points to VINELink Kansas.
Bourbon County Inmate Verification
Roster data should be treated as a public custody snapshot. The sheriff profile warning says charges and bail may change after court appearances and may not be current. That warning is important for families, bond companies, employers, and researchers because a booking row can lag behind a court order or release event. The jail phone line is the correct source for current bail, charges, and case numbers when a person is in custody.
Released roster entries can help confirm that a person was booked, but they do not show the full court outcome. A released person may still have a pending District Court case, a municipal case, probation condition, or out-of-county hold issue. Use Kansas CaseSearch for public District Court case status and Fort Scott Municipal Court for city matters. Use KDOC only after the question shifts from local jail custody to state correctional custody.
The sheriff app can be a mobile shortcut for inmates and most-wanted information, but the website and jail phone line remain important when the question involves bond, release, or a specific case number. Store listings did not prove extra app-only fields.