The Detention Center
Manitowoc County Jail
- Operated byManitowoc County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1025 South 9th Street, Manitowoc, WI 54220
- BedsNot found
- Jail AdministratorAndrew LaCrosse
Source: Manitowoc County - Jail · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Daniel Hartwig
- Runs the jailThe Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office operates the Manitowoc County Jail at 1025 South 9th Street, Manitowoc, WI
- 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: Manitowoc County - 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.
Manitowoc 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 boardManitowoc County Board of Supervisors
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The 'Current Prisoner List' page live-publishes a booking roster directly on the county's own domain (checked 2026-09-19: 'Total Housed: 197'), with name, age, gender and race/ethnicity fields per person.
- The Sheriff's Office Annual Report gives partial financial data (jail meal cost of $1.44 each, ~$239,938 total food spending in 2025) and monthly booking counts, but no comprehensive agency budget, capacity figure, or death-in-custody data, so budget/capacity/deaths are marked no.
- The 'Bail Court Appearances' jail page explains hearing-time rules (before/after 8:00 a.m. turn-ins, next-day video bail hearings) but does not give bond amounts or payment instructions, so bond_info is marked no; no PREA-specific page was found on the county jail site.
- 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 Manitowoc County site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Manitowoc 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