The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byPresque Isle County Sheriff's Office
- What was triedpresqueislecounty.org has no Sheriff, Jail, or Corrections department page in its navigation; presqueislesheriff.com (the apparent independent sheriff's-office domain) returned a robots.txt fetch error on every attempt and could not be opened
Source: Presque Isle County website · 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
Not found
- Runs the jailPresque Isle 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
- NoteThe Sheriff's Office is not linked from the county's own website (presqueislecounty.org) and appears to be hosted at a separate domain (presqueislesheriff.com) that could not be accessed (blocked by that site's robots.txt); a 2018-2020-dated third-party directory (Michigan Sheriffs' Association) names a Sheriff Joseph Brewbaker, but this could not be confirmed as current from a page opened for this research
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Presque Isle 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.
Presque Isle 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 boardClifford Tollini (D1, Chair), Robert Brietzke (D2), Robin Hughes (D3), Joseph Libby (D4, Vice-Chair), Robert Crook (D5) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's main website (presqueislecounty.org) lists Airport, Building & Zoning, Clerk's Office, Board of Commissioners, Drain Commissioner, Courts, Economic Development, Elections, Emergency Management, Equalization, MSU Extension, Register of Deeds, Treasurer, and Veterans Affairs — but no Sheriff, Jail, or Corrections department page.
- The sheriff's office appears to run its own separate site (presqueislesheriff.com per a third-party directory), which could not be accessed for this research (robots.txt fetch failure on repeated attempts) — logged here as what was tried rather than cited.
- Because the current officeholder could not be confirmed from an accessible official page, the sheriff's name is recorded as Not found per this project's accuracy rules, rather than repeating an unconfirmed, possibly outdated third-party name.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Presque Isle 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