This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visits, or retrieve official booking records. Contact the sheriff, jail, court, corrections agency, or federal office that controls the record.
Official Dawes County Contacts
For current county jail custody, start with the Dawes County Sheriff's Office and jail. For court charges after a jail arrest, use the court clerk or county attorney. The public contacts below come from the Dawes County and Nebraska Judicial Branch source material.
Dawes County Sheriff's Office / Jail
451 Main Street
Chadron, NE 69337
(308) 432-3025
Alternate: (308) 432-0113
Fax: (308) 432-0115
Sheriff: Jeff Johns
Dawes County Court
451 Main Street, Suite D
Chadron, NE 69337
(308) 432-0116
Fax: (308) 432-0118
Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4:30pm
Dawes County Attorney
250 Main Street
Chadron, NE 69337
(308) 432-3900
Fax: (308) 432-3731
Hours: weekdays, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Use the right office for the task, because Dawes County jail records, court filings, state prison records, and federal or immigration detention records are kept in separate systems.
- For a person who may be in the county jail, use the jail inmate records lookup steps and call the sheriff's office.
- For booking photos, use the jail roster mugshots request path because no official Dawes County mugshot gallery was located.
- For charges filed after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and the Nebraska court systems.
- For the local detention facility, use the Dawes County Jail page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced Nebraska prisoner, search the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services incarceration-records locator.
- For federal prison or immigration detention, use the BOP inmate locator, ICE detainee locator, or U.S. Marshals Service contact path.