The Detention Center
Juneau County Jail
- Operated byJuneau County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address200 Oak St., Mauston, WI 53948 (Juneau County Justice Center)
- BedsNot found
- Jail AdministratorColleen Beier
Source: Juneau County, WI - Sheriff's Office Jail page · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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
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 Andrew F. Zobal
- Runs the jailThe Juneau County Sheriff's Office operates the Juneau County Jail at the Juneau County Justice Center in Mauston
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
- Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 gives the elected county sheriff custody of the county jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Juneau 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.
Juneau 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 boardJuneau County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county site publishes a 'Sheriff/Jail Minutes' page under a Sheriff & Jail board/committee, suggesting some committee-level oversight records, but capacity, budget and death data were not found on the office's own pages.
- The jail page lists a mailing address ('1533 S 42nd Street - Suite 200') that does not correspond to the jail's physical Mauston location and appears to be a separate mailing/vendor address; the physical jail location used here (200 Oak St., Mauston, WI) is the one confirmed on the same official page.
- State inspection/oversight: Wisconsin county jails are subject to inspection by the WI Department of Corrections, Division of Community Corrections, under Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350; no county-specific inspection report was found on the Juneau County site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Juneau 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