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Annex Facility Overview

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office Annex Facility is operated by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office as part of the Detention Bureau. It is not a separate city jail, private jail, or state prison. The Annex is an auxiliary detention building tied to the county jail system, so custody lookup, mail, video visitation, phone services, and money rules generally follow the Sheriff's detention channels unless an inmate has been moved to another agency.

The official Annex page gives the local history that makes this facility different from the main jail. The building previously served as the Sheriff's Work Release Facility. After major renovation, it opened as the Annex in January 2019. The stated purpose was to help with overcrowding at the Adult Detention Facility and reduce out-of-county housing costs. That background explains why an inmate may be in Sheriff custody but housed away from the main W. Elm jail.

The Annex is staffed by sixteen full-time deputies, two sergeants, and one lieutenant. The official capacity is 180 inmates, including six inmate workers. The facility's role is narrower than the main jail's intake function. New arrests generally enter through the Adult Detention Facility process first, then the detention system may place some people at the Annex based on security, capacity, classification, and operations needs.

The official Annex screenshot shows the Sheriff's location and capacity details for this auxiliary detention facility.

That source is the basis for the Annex's opening date, renovated work-release history, and staffing details.

Annex Facility Capacity

The Sheriff's official Annex page lists capacity at 180 inmates, including six inmate workers. That number is facility-specific and should not be blended with the main jail's larger secure-housing figure. The Annex operates as extra county jail housing, while the Adult Detention Facility remains the primary booking and detention center for Sedgwick County.

Sedgwick County population reports sometimes count booking, detention, Annex, and out-of-county housing together when describing jail-system average daily population. That is useful for seeing system pressure, but it does not identify exactly how many people are inside the Annex at a given moment. For an individual person, the practical route is still the current Sheriff custody search and a follow-up call when location matters for visits, mail, or money.

Search Annex Facility Inmates

Annex inmates are searched through the official Sedgwick County inmate search, not a separate Annex roster. The county search covers persons currently in custody of the Sedgwick County Sheriff. The page accepts first and last name fields and requires reCAPTCHA. Because the roster is current-custody oriented, it can miss people who were released, transported to KDOC, housed out of county, or moved to federal or immigration custody.

1. Open the official Sedgwick County inmate search and enter the person's first name, last name, or both.
2. Complete the reCAPTCHA and submit the search through the county site.
3. Review the custody result for the matching person and any location information shown by the Sheriff's system.
4. If no result appears, check the out-of-county inmate guidance, KASPER, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody path.

When the search result is unclear, call the jail main line at 316-660-5245 or Detention Administration at 316-660-0900. For records not visible through the online search, Sheriff Records can be reached at 316-660-3888, and county KORA requests may be routed through the Sedgwick County open-records process.

Annex Facility Contact

The Annex address is different from the main jail, but the public contact path still runs through Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office detention administration. Visitors, family members, and records requesters should not assume the Annex lobby can solve every custody issue. For location confirmation, search first and call the detention numbers before traveling.

Annex Facility Visits

Annex visits follow the county detention video-visitation system documented on the Sheriff's inmate communications page. JailATM handles scheduling and video visits. Each inmate receives one free hour of on-site video visitation per week. Additional on-site visits are charged at the remote video rate. All visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance, and first-time remote video users require detention staff approval during the Monday through Friday approval period.

The Sheriff's visitation and communications page is also where the county lists phone, video, tablet, and message rates.

Annex Mail and Money

Annex inmates use the Sheriff's detention communication and account systems. Personal mail uses the JailATM processing center address for Sedgwick County Adult Detention KS with the inmate name and number. Money can be deposited through JailATM online or at the lobby kiosk. The county also notes that if an inmate is housed outside Sedgwick County, money and mail should be sent to the actual holding facility. That matters because the Annex was created partly to reduce out-of-county housing, but some out-of-county placement can still occur.

Annex Housing and Intake

The Annex is not described as the county's main arrest intake point. The Adult Detention Facility is the core booking facility for municipal inmates, federal inmates, parole violators, and new misdemeanor or felony arrests. After booking, classification, bond review, and housing decisions, some inmates may be housed at the Annex as part of population management. A move between the main jail and Annex does not by itself mean the case type changed.

The Sheriff's Operations Division includes Population Control, which plans inmate transportation to other county facilities and coordinates transportation to area prisons after sentencing. That unit's role helps explain why a person's visible location can change after booking. If a person has been sentenced to KDOC, the county roster may no longer be the right tool. Use KASPER for state custody and the county search for current Sheriff custody.

Auxiliary detention

County jail housing that supports the main detention facility instead of replacing it.

Classification

A jail review of security, health, risk, and housing factors after intake.

Out-of-county housing

A county inmate housed in another facility when local capacity or operations require it.

Annex Facility History

The Annex is one of the most local details in Sedgwick County's detention system. It sits at the former Sheriff's Work Release Facility location and reopened in January 2019 after major renovation. The Sheriff's Office states that the purpose was to help with overcrowding at the main facility and reduce expenses tied to housing inmates outside the county. That history makes it different from Wichita Work Release Facility, which is a separate KDOC state work-release prison in downtown Wichita.

For a person arrested in Sedgwick County, the court and custody path may still start at the Adult Detention Facility even if housing later shifts to the Annex. Bond, court charges, release, property, and records issues should be traced back through the Sheriff's detention system and, after court filing, the 18th Judicial District Court. For filed court cases after a jail arrest, the separate Sedgwick County court records after jail arrest page covers the court-record path.