The Detention Center
Lapeer County Jail
- Operated byLapeer County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address3231 John Conley Dr., Lapeer, MI 48446
- Beds123 beds, per the Corrections Division's own page
- HistoryOperational since 1998
- FeesInmates sentenced to 5+ days are billed $35/day for room and board (discounted to $20/day if paid within 30 days of release), per the office's own inmate-lodging page
- Jail AdministratorLt. Steve Beebe (per the Sheriff's Office page)
Source: Lapeer County, MI - Sheriff's Office Corrections · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1998 (operational since)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds123
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Scott McKenna
- Runs the jailThe Sheriff's Office operates the Lapeer County Jail (Corrections Division), per the office's own site
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the elected county 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: Lapeer 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.
Lapeer 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 boardhttps://www.lapeercountymi.gov/government/board_of_commissioners/index.php →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Corrections Division page publishes jail capacity (123 beds), commissary/deposit procedures (via Express Account or an in-jail kiosk), an inmate-lodging fee schedule, and a 2025 approved bail bonds list.
- The Finance Department page links to a 'Budget Book' hosted on the county's designated ClearGov budget portal, confirming a current adopted budget is published, though the portal's page itself is script-rendered and specific Sheriff/Jail dollar figures could not be extracted from it.
- No PREA policy, inspection reports, in-custody death records, operational contracts (e.g., medical/food vendor), or a public staff/inmate roster were found on the Sheriff's Office site.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan county jails are subject to inspection under the Michigan Department of Corrections' Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups; no county-published inspection reports were found on lapeercountymi.gov.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lapeer 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