The Detention Center
Kenosha County Pre-Trial Facility and Kenosha County Detention Center
- Operated byKenosha County Sheriff's Office
- Pre-Trial Facility address927 54th Street, Kenosha, WI 53140; average daily population approximately 250
- Detention Center address4777 88th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53144; average daily population approximately 470
- Jail AdministratorBryan Easter
Source: Kenosha County, WI - Detentions Division / Jail Information · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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 David W. Zoerner
- Runs the jailThe Kenosha County Sheriff's Office operates the Kenosha County Pre-Trial Facility and the Kenosha County Detention Center
- 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: Kenosha 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.
Kenosha 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 boardKenosha County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The Detentions Division page gives average daily population figures for both facilities (approx. 250 at the Pre-Trial Facility, approx. 470 at the Detention Center) but not rated bed capacity.
- The office publishes an annual report archive (e.g., '2025 Annual Report') covering operations and statistics, but it was not confirmed to contain a line-item budget, so the budget check is marked no.
- The PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy and reporting channels but does not publish audit results.
- 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 Kenosha County site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kenosha 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