Someone arrested in Arkansas City is held at the Cowley County Jail in Winfield, not in Ark City. We are a Wichita bail bond company and we travel down to Cowley County to write bonds in person. Call (316) 833-8506 any hour and a licensed bondsman will answer.
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A bail bond is a service fee for putting up bail money to a court in order to allow you to get out of jail until your court date. The court will set a bail amount for you, if it is more than you can afford and you don’t want yourself or your loved one to remain in jail until that court date, then you need to talk to a bail bonds company who will put the money up on your behalf.
Co-signing for a bail bond means you are taking legal responsibility for the full amount of the bail bond. So if the court said the bail bond was $10,000, and the bail bondsman is asking you to pay $1,000 to them as their service fee, and the person skips out and runs from the appointed court date, the bondsman will come after you to get the money they put up to the court, which means you owe the full $10,000.
If they were arrested in Arkansas City, they are in Cowley County custody at the Cowley County Jail, 911 Fuller, Winfield, KS 67156. The Sheriff’s Office is 620-221-5444. Felony and county cases go to Cowley County District Court, which sits both in Winfield at 311 E 9th Ave, 620-221-5470, and in the Arkansas City municipal building at 620-441-4520. City tickets go to Arkansas City Municipal Court at 118 W Central Ave, 620-441-4408. Call us at (316) 833-8506 and we will come post the bond.
An arrest in Arkansas City means Cowley County, and Cowley County does a few things differently from Sedgwick County. Knowing those differences before you start making calls will save you hours.
We are a bail bond company based in Wichita at 700 N Market St, Ste 1, and the office is staffed around the clock. We do not keep an office in Arkansas City. What we do is travel down to Cowley County and write the bond in person, the same way we do in Sedgwick County. Call (316) 833-8506 and a licensed bondsman will answer, find your person, confirm the bond and get moving.
Arkansas City does not have a county jail. Cowley County runs one jail, and it is in Winfield, about a half hour north of Ark City.
The Cowley County Jail is operated by the Cowley County Sheriff’s Office at 911 Fuller, Winfield, KS 67156. The Sheriff’s Office numbers are 620-221-5444 and 620-441-4555, with office hours listed as 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The current sheriff is Dave Falletti.
The jail itself is newer than most in the area. Cowley County voters approved a sales tax in 2005 to build it, it opened in 2008 and was finished in 2009, and it replaced an older facility with a recommended capacity of 38. The current building is a 220 bed facility with core systems built to handle up to 400 if the county ever needs to expand. The county uses NCIC Inmate Communications for inmate visitation and messaging, which families can access through the NCIC app on iOS or Android or through a computer.
So if your person was picked up on Summit Street in Arkansas City, they are almost certainly sitting in Winfield by the time you are reading this.
Most Kansas counties have one district court in one county seat. Cowley County has district court locations in two towns, and which one your case lands in matters for where you have to show up.
Cowley County is the entire 19th Judicial District, meaning it does not share judges with neighbouring counties the way Sumner or Butler County does. The chief clerk of the district court is Cheryl Wilson. The main Cowley County Courthouse line is 620-221-5400, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
If the ticket or charge came from an Arkansas City police officer and it is a city ordinance or city traffic matter, it goes to Arkansas City Municipal Court, not to district court.
The police department at 117 W Central and the municipal court at 118 W Central are directly across the street from each other, which trips up people who are told to go to “the building on Central” and end up in the wrong one.
Here is the actual sequence, so there are no surprises.
If you do not have all of it, call anyway. Locating your person and confirming the bond is the first thing we do, and we do it before anyone talks about money.
The judge sets a bond amount. That is the money the court holds to make sure your person comes back to court. You can pay the full amount to the court in cash, which you get back at the end of the case if every court date is met, or you can go through a bail bond company, which charges a fee to post the bond on your behalf.
The fee is what you pay for the service. It is not a deposit and it is not refunded when the case ends. That is how it works at every bail bond company in Kansas. The exact fee and payment terms depend on the bond amount, the charge and the county, so we quote it on the call instead of posting one number that may not apply to your situation.
Co-signing means you take on responsibility for the full bond amount if your person misses court. Two honest questions before you sign: will this person show up, and can you stay in contact with them until the case is finished? Most bonds that go bad go bad because somebody lost track of a court date, not because somebody ran. If you co-sign, write every date down and make sure they get there.
Plenty of Wichita companies will tell you Cowley County is too far. We make the drive. Call (316) 833-8506 any hour of the day or night and we will tell you where your person is, what they are charged with and what the bond is before anything else happens. Our Wichita office at 700 N Market St, Ste 1 is open and staffed around the clock, not just forwarded to an answering service.
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