Grant County

The Detention Center

Not found

• Operated byGrant County Sheriff's Office
• Jail addressNot found
• BedsNot found
• What was triedGrant County Sheriff's Office jail page was under construction / not reachable at time of research

Source: Grant County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-19

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Grant County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-19. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Craig W. Reukauf

• Runs the jailGrant County Sheriff's Office; jail facility details not found on the pages opened
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
• Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff, custody of jail)

Source: Grant County 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.

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
• Where the jail money is decidedNot found