The Detention Center
Huron County Jail
- Operated byHuron County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address120 S. Heisterman St., Bad Axe, MI 48413
- BedsNot found on the office's own site
- Jail AdministratorLt. Ryan Neumann
Source: Huron County, Michigan - Sheriff's Jail Info · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson
- Runs the jailHuron County Sheriff's Office operates the Huron County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the sheriff 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: Huron County, Michigan - 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.
Huron 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 boardHuron County Board of Commissioners: Sami Khoury (D1), Kurt Geiger (D2), Scott Maust (D3), Steve Vaughan (D4), John Hunt (D5), Glenn Cook (D6), Mary E. Babcock (D7) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Note: Huron County, Michigan (seat Bad Axe) is distinct from Huron County, Ohio (seat Norwalk); an initial search for 'huroncountysheriff.com' resolved to the Ohio sheriff's office (Sheriff Corbin) and was discarded — the office named and cited here (Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson) was confirmed via the official Michigan county site, co.huron.mi.us.
- The FY 2026 Budget document (approved by the Board of Commissioners, published on the county's own site) shows a Sheriff Department (Dept 301.00) with revenue including prisoner fees and work release fees, and a separate Jail Operations (Dept 351.00) line.
- The Jail Info page states offsite video visits cost $7.50; the FY2026 budget document also references 'prisoner fees' and 'work release fees' as Sheriff Department revenue sources.
- A jail administrator (Lt. Ryan Neumann) is named on the Sheriff's Office 'Jail Staff' page, https://www.co.huron.mi.us/sheriffs-jail-staff.
- No inmate roster, bond-payment information, PREA policy, inspection records, or contracts were found published on the county's own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Huron 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