The Detention Center
Douglas County Jail
- Operated byDouglas County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressGovernment Center, 1310 N. 14th St., Superior, WI 54880
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
Source: Douglas County, WI - Jail · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- ✗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 Matt Izzard
- Runs the jailDouglas County Sheriff's Office operates the Douglas County Jail in Superior
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
- Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff, custody of jail)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Douglas 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.
Douglas 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 boardNot found (Douglas County has an elected county board per state law; specific board name/page not confirmed on douglascountywi.gov in this pass)
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's Office maintains a separate dedicated site, sheriffofdouglascountywi.org, cross-linked from the county's official douglascountywi.gov pages; it publishes a live, sortable/searchable inmate roster.
- Jail Division page lists a 'Posting Bail' link but the fetched content did not include a fee amount; no capacity/bed count, PREA policy, budget, inspection reports, or contracts found on either domain.
- What was tried: a direct fetch of sheriffofdouglascountywi.org/jail returned a 404; searched for jail capacity via news/third-party sources only (not usable per accuracy rules) — recorded as Not found on the office's own site.
- State inspection/oversight: Wisconsin DOC Division of Community Corrections inspects county jails under Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350; not independently confirmed to apply to Douglas County on the county's own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Douglas 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