Green Lake County, Wisconsin — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Green Lake County Correctional Facility

Operated byGreen Lake County Sheriff's Office
Jail address571 County Road A, Green Lake, WI 54941
Beds108-bed facility, completed and operational July 2010

Source: Green Lake County, WI - Sheriff/Corrections · checked 2026-09-19

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Green Lake 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 built2010
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds108

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Mark A. Podoll

Runs the jailGreen Lake County Sheriff's Office operates the Green Lake County Correctional Facility
How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59; Podoll has served as Sheriff since January 2007
Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff, custody of jail)

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Green Lake County, WI - Sheriff · 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.

Green Lake County Circuit Court

Not found

Still needed

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
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

Fees noted: civilian fingerprinting $20 (county residents) / $30 (out-of-county); Stellar Kiosk bond/deposit fees $2-3 per cash deposit or 10% for debit; inmate phone service via Reliance Telephone.
News search found a 2026 Ballotpedia candidate page for a 'Jason H. Preuss' for Green Lake County Sheriff (2026 candidate), but the county's own current Sheriff page names Mark A. Podoll as the sitting sheriff; the official page is used per the accuracy rules (never cite a challenger/candidate page as the current officeholder).

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Green Lake 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