The Detention Center
Burnett County Jail
- Operated byBurnett County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
- Jail addressBurnett County Government Center, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872
- BedsCapacity of 92 inmates after a new Public Safety Facility (ground broken 2022, construction completed 2024)
- HistoryJail at its original location opened in 1985 housing 26 inmates
- BondBond can be paid 24 hours a day at the jail (cash or credit card) or online via JailATM after the jail confirms setup
- Fees$25 warrant fee billed to all individuals arrested on a warrant; $30 sentencing fee for all individuals serving time
Source: Burnett County, WI - County Jail · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1985 (original jail; housed 26 inmates)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds92 (current, post-expansion)
Since then
- New Public Safety Facility: ground broken 2022, construction completed 2024, raising capacity to 92 inmates
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tracy Finch
- Runs the jailBurnett County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division is responsible for the Burnett County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
- Statutory basisOffice responsibilities listed by the county include bailiff services to the court, civil process, dispatch, investigation, jail, and patrol
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Burnett County, WI - Sheriff's Office · 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.
Burnett 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 boardBurnett County Board of Supervisors (Chair not found) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Inmate Information page links to a Jail Inmate Roster PDF stated to be updated daily by 07:00 am.
- County publishes a full run of Adopted Budgets (2015-2026) and Audited Financial Statements (2015-2024) on its Budget and Finance page, though a jail-specific budget line was not separately verified.
- No PREA report, inspection report, contracts (food/medical/commissary vendor) disclosure, or death records found on the pages checked.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Burnett 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