The Detention Center
Oneida County Jail
- Operated byOneida County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2000 E. Winnebago Street, Rhinelander, WI 54501
- Beds200-bed facility, completed July 1999, pod design allowing 24-hour visual observation
- NotableAlso houses approximately 50 Wisconsin Department of Corrections state inmates under contract, per the Sheriff's Office's own Corrections page
- Jail AdministratorMark A. Neuman
Source: Oneida County Sheriff's Office - 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
- ✗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 built1999 (completed July 1999)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds200
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Grady Hartman
- Runs the jailOneida County Sheriff's Office operates the Oneida County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
- Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Oneida 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.
Oneida 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 boardOneida County Board of Supervisors (Chairperson: David Hintz) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Sheriff's Office maintains a separate branded site (oneidasheriff.org) from the county's general departments page (oneidacountywi.gov); both were treated as the office's/county's own domains.
- The 2026 county budget document (published on oneidacountywi.gov) shows the Sheriff's Office at $13,568,013 in expenses against $2,044,865 in revenue, 92 FTE positions, and roughly 18% of the county's total budget — this is a general Sheriff's-Office budget line, not a jail-specific breakout.
- PREA page publishes a zero-tolerance policy statement and two reporting hotlines but no audit report or statistics on the page itself, even though a search located separately-hosted annual PREA report PDFs (e.g., a 2023 report) on the same oneidasheriff.org domain; only the disclosure page actually opened is cited.
- A jail 'Rules of the Jail' document reportedly covering bail/bond and jail processing fees was referenced in search results but could not be located and opened directly during this pass, so bond_info and fees are marked no rather than assumed.
- No on-site roster, inspection report, or contracts page was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Oneida 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