The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- What was triedAttempted DNS resolution for wibauxcountymt.gov, wibauxcounty.mt.gov, wibauxcounty.org, wibauxcountymontana.gov, wibauxmt.gov, co.wibaux.mt.us, and wibaux.mt.gov — none resolve. Checked the Montana Judicial Branch's Wibaux County Resource Guide PDF (courts.mt.gov) — it lists Clerk of District Court, Clerk & Recorder, Justice of Peace/City Judge, and County Attorney office addresses in Wibaux, MT, but does not mention a sheriff or jail. Attempted the Montana Association of Counties county profile page and the Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association county page — both were inaccessible (CAPTCHA/404).
Source: Not found — no official Wibaux County source located · checked 2026-08-24
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 Not found
- Website statusNo Wibaux County government website could be located (no working .gov/.org domain resolves for the county; DNS lookups for the county's likely domains failed)
- How the office is filledElected (all Montana sheriffs are elected under MCA Title 7 Ch. 32), but no current officeholder name could be confirmed from an official source
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Not found — no official Wibaux County source located · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Montana district court judges and justices of the peace/city judges are elected. The Justice of the Peace typically sets bail at first appearance. Both are state judicial officers under the Montana judicial branch (MCA Title 3), not county officials.
7th Judicial District Court Judges (Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland, and Wibaux Counties)
- Hon. Scott Herring
- Hon. Olivia Rieger
Wibaux County (Wibaux) Justice of the Peace / City Judge
- Linda Switzer
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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 boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Notes on the record
- Wibaux County (Montana's least-populous county) appears to have no dedicated county government website — DNS resolution failed for every plausible county domain tried, and Montana Association of Counties / Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association pages for Wibaux were not accessible. This is recorded as the finding rather than treated as a routine data gap.
- Because no official county source could be reached, the sheriff's name, jail status, and commissioners are recorded as 'Not found' rather than guessed; the county seat address (Wibaux) is sourced instead from the Montana Judicial Branch's county resource guide, which lists Wibaux County offices at addresses in Wibaux, MT.
- Montana has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; state_inspection is recorded as empty per the research brief.
- Not found — no Wibaux County government website could be located to confirm current commissioners' names.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Wibaux 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 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered