Menominee County

The Detention Center

Menominee Tribal Detention Facility (not a Menominee County facility)

• Operated byMenominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Menominee Tribal Police Department — a Bureau of Indian Affairs facility contracted through the Tribe, jointly funded by BIA and the Tribe; not operated by the Menominee County Sheriff's Office
• FindingMenominee County's own Sheriff's Office page (co.menominee.wi.us) lists no jail division and no jail page; the only detention facility located within the county is the Menominee Tribal Detention Facility, run by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, not the county
• Facility details45-bed jail, opened 1984, in Keshena, WI; staff of 16; a Bureau of Indian Affairs facility contracted through the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, funded by both entities, per the Menominee Tribal Police Department's own site
• AddressLaw Enforcement Center, PO Box 550, Keshena, WI 54135
• Not confirmedWhether Menominee County criminal defendants/arrestees are specifically booked into this tribal facility, or under what agreement, was not stated on either the county's or the tribe's own site during this research pass

Source: Menominee Tribal Police Department - Detention Facility · 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 Menominee 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 (for a county-operated jail; no county jail was found)
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsNot found (for a county-operated jail; the separate Menominee Tribal Detention Facility, not run by the county, reports 45 beds)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Rebecca Smith

• Runs the jailMenominee County's own Sheriff's Office site does not publish a jail page or state that the Sheriff's Office operates a county jail; see jail entry below
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
• Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff)
• GeographyMenominee County is coextensive with the Menominee Indian Reservation and is Wisconsin's least populous county

Source: Menominee County, WI - 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 boardMenominee County/Town Board (Chairman: Ben Warrington, Ward #3) →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →