The Detention Center
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- Operated byOscoda County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff's office address301 S. Morenci Ave., Mio, MI 48647
- CaptainDavid R. Hughes
Source: Oscoda 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 Taylor D. Kann
- Runs the jailOscoda County Sheriff's Office
- 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: Oscoda 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.
Oscoda 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 boardCharles E. Varner Jr. (D1, Chair), Tom McCauley (D2, Vice Chair), Linda Jagiello (D3), Ted Handrich (D4), Joe Breaugh (D5) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Budget PDF (labeled FY26 general fund, containing 2025 appropriated/actual figures as of 9/30/2025) linked from the Board of Commissioners page itemizes a Sheriff department (Dept 301) budget of roughly $1.4 million including the elected sheriff's salary line, but no separate jail/corrections department line item was found in the excerpt reviewed.
- Sheriff Department page links only to STING, Recreational Patrol, Auxiliary, employment, tip-line, and FOIA pages — no dedicated jail/corrections page, roster, PREA, inspection, contract, bond, or fee content found on the county's own domain.
- No separate jail facility name or address was found on the county's own site; inmates may be housed at the sheriff's office building at 301 S. Morenci Ave., Mio, but this was not confirmed by an official source.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Oscoda 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