The Detention Center
Barron County Jail
- Operated byBarron County Sheriff's Department
- Jail addressBarron County Justice Center, 1420 State Hwy 25 North, Room 1200, Barron, WI 54812-3007
- Beds194-bed facility
- Built2003-2004
- Staffing4 Sergeants, 22 full-time Jailers, 1 receptionist, 1 transport officer, 1 Program Director
- Jail AdministratorTim Evenson — Jail Captain overseeing Barron County Jail operations
Source: Barron County, WI - Jail · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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 built2003-2004
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds194
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jodi Kummet
- Runs the jailBarron County Sheriff's Department Jail Division operates the Barron County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59; described on the department's own site as 'a constitutional officer and the chief law enforcement officer in the County'
- Statutory basisOffice responsibilities listed by the department include Patrol and Jail Operations, civil process, court security, and inmate transportation
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Barron County Sheriff's Department · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Wisconsin circuit court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Wis. Const. art. VII — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Barron 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 boardBarron County Board of Supervisors (Chair not found) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's Department site links to a live Barron County Jail Inmate Roster and a 'Bookings in the Last 7 Days' page hosted at co.barron.wi.us, the county's legacy domain, alongside the current barroncountywi.gov / barronsheriff.org site.
- Sheriff's Department publishes Annual Reports (2023, 2024, 2025) as PDFs; content of these reports (possible stats on deaths, use of force, etc.) was not individually verified.
- Jail page notes food and medical services are contracted out but does not publish the contracts themselves.
- No published bond/bail information or fee schedule found on the jail page checked.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Barron 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