Luce County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byLuce County Sheriff's Office
• Facility detailsThe county's own Sheriff's Department page lists an address (411 West Harrie Street, Newberry, MI 49868) and a govpaynow.com link for 'Inmate Payments,' but does not name or describe a current jail facility, capacity, or address distinct from the Sheriff's Department office
• Historic jail buildingThe Luce County Sheriff's House and Jail, the county's original 1894-era jail building, stopped operating as a jail decades ago and reopened in 1976 as the Luce County Historical Museum, per Wikipedia; this does not indicate the status of the county's current, operating jail, which was not confirmed

Source: Luce County, MI - Sheriff's Department · checked 2026-09-19

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✗Beds and daily population — not published
• ✗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 — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Luce County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-19. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Eric Gravelle

• Runs the jailMCL 51.75 gives the elected county sheriff custody of the county jail; the office's own site did not publish separate jail facility details (see notes)
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70; sworn in as the 21st Sheriff of Luce County on January 1, 2023, per the Michigan Sheriffs' Association directory
• Statutory basisMCL 51.75

Source: Luce County, MI - Sheriff's Department · 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.

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.lucecountymi.com/commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →