The Detention Center
Calumet County Correctional Facility
- Operated byCalumet County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
- Jail address206 Court Street, Chilton, WI 53014
- BedsNot found
- ProgramsHuber Law work release, Electronic Monitoring Program (EMP)
Source: Calumet County, WI - Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
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 Brett Bowe
- Runs the jailCalumet County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates the Calumet County Correctional Facility
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
- Statutory basisOffice's stated purpose is protection of citizens including prevention, detection, apprehension, prosecution, and detention of those who violate state or local laws; divisions include Communications Center, Corrections, Law Enforcement Patrol, Investigations, Law Enforcement Records, Civil Process and Foreclosures
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Calumet 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.
Calumet 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 boardCalumet County Board of Supervisors, Chairperson Alice Connors (District 18), Vice-Chairperson Matthew H. Budde (District 4) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Corrections Division page links to a 'Current Inmate List' and 'Booking Report' under its Reports section (hosted at publicreports.blob.core.windows.net but linked directly from the county's own Corrections Division page).
- Fees page publishes specific dollar figures: $30 booking fee for Huber/Probation holds, $50 Huber transfer fee, $20/day Huber working fee, $25/day Electronic Monitoring Program fee; separate kiosk fees of $2.00 (cash) / $8.95 (credit card) per inmate phone/canteen transaction.
- County publishes a run of Adopted Budget books (2019-2025+) on its Finance page.
- No published bed capacity, death records, PREA report, inspection report, contracts, or bond/bail information found on the pages checked.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Calumet 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