The Detention Center
Missaukee County Jail
- Operated byMissaukee County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address110 S Pine St, Lake City, MI 49651 (Sheriff's Office listed at 111 S. Canal Street, PO Box 800, Lake City, MI 49651)
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
- Mail policyAs of January 2020, the jail accepts only postcards as incoming mail for all inmates, except attorney/client communication
- Jail AdministratorLt. Jesse Harwood (per the county's own Jail Inmate Information page)
Source: Missaukee County, MI - Jail Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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
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 Wilbur "Wil" Yancer, Jr.
- Runs the jailThe Sheriff's Office operates the Missaukee County Jail, per the county's own Sheriff Department pages
- 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: Missaukee County, MI - Sheriff · 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.
Missaukee 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.missaukee.org/departments/county_commission/index.php →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The current sheriff's name (Wilbur 'Wil' Yancer, Jr.) was not stated on the county's own 'About Our Office' or 'Sheriff' index pages that were opened; it appeared only in a search result, so the 'named' check is scored 'no' per the audit rule requiring a URL on the office's own domain that itself states the name. The name is carried in the sheriff record above because it recurred consistently, but is flagged here as unconfirmed by a directly opened official-site statement.
- None of roster, capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, inspections, contracts, bond information, or fees pages were found published on missaukee.org in the pages opened; the site does list separate 'Jail Information,' 'Inmate Accounts,' and 'Inmate Information' pages that may carry some of this content but were not confirmed to contain it.
- 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 missaukee.org.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Missaukee 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