The Detention Center
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- Operated byOsceola County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff's office address325 W. Upton, Reed City, MI 49677 (courthouse at 301 W. Upton Ave.)
- Inmate servicesCommissary deposits and video visitation via third-party vendors mentioned; no separate jail facility name/address/capacity published
Source: Osceola County website · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Cool
- Runs the jailOsceola County Sheriff's Office provides law enforcement, corrections, and court services
- 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: Osceola County website · 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.
Osceola County Circuit Court
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- 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 boardNot found →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County's 2026 Approved Budget PDF, linked from the Treasurer page's official document center, itemizes Sheriff (Dept 301) and Jail (Dept 351) appropriations and revenue lines, including inmate housing charge, inmate telephone revenue, and treatment-of-prisoners reimbursement — confirming a published, itemized public-safety budget.
- Sheriff department page references a Community Corrections department but does not publish a jail roster, capacity figure, PREA policy, inspection record, contract, bond schedule, or fee schedule on the county's own domain.
- Caution: a similarly named but unrelated site, sheriffosceolacounty.org, belongs to Osceola County, Iowa, not Michigan, and was not used as a source here.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Osceola 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