The Detention Center
Gladwin County Jail
- Operated byGladwin County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address501 West Cedar Avenue, Gladwin, MI 48624
- BedsDesignated capacity to accommodate 72 adult offenders
Source: Gladwin County, MI - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds72
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael Shea
- Runs the jailThe Gladwin County Sheriff's Office operates the Gladwin County Jail at 501 West Cedar Avenue, Gladwin
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 (sheriff has custody of the county jail)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gladwin County, MI - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Michigan circuit and district court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Mich. Const. art. VI — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Gladwin County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-19
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardFive district commissioners; chair not identified on the page →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's Office page lists a fee schedule: paper service $26 flat plus mileage, concealed-weapon fingerprints $15, non-criminal fingerprints $65, notary service $5/page, purchase permits $5 plus notary, police reports $10 first page plus $1/additional page, and room & board $10/day.
- No jail roster, budget, deaths, PREA, inspection, contract, or bond information was found published on the county's own site.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan Department of Corrections conducts county jail inspections under state administrative rules; no inspection report was found published on the county's own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Gladwin County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-19 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered