The Detention Center
Outagamie County Jail (Outagamie County Justice Center)
- Operated byOutagamie County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address320 S. Walnut Street, Appleton, WI 54911
- Beds556 beds total; houses male and female adults plus contract prisoners from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections; described on the county's own site as Wisconsin's 7th-largest jail by capacity
Source: Outagamie County, WI - Corrections Division · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗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
- Beds556
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Clint C. Kriewaldt
- Runs the jailOutagamie County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division, operates the Outagamie 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: Outagamie 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.
Outagamie 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 boardOutagamie County Board of Supervisors (36 members) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Inmate List page delivers a downloadable, auto-refreshing (every half hour) PDF roster of adult inmates currently in the jail, hosted directly on the county's own outagamie.gov domain — counted yes for 'roster.'
- The PREA page publishes a named policy (406-AM5-PREA-090123), a comprehensive 2024 final PREA audit report, and an annual aggregated PREA data report — used for both 'prea' and 'inspections' since the independent audit report functions as the facility's published inspection record.
- The Corrections Division page separately confirms the jail also houses contract prisoners from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
- Budget check uses the county's general County Financials page (adopted budgets, financial statements, audits), not a Sheriff's-Office-specific budget document.
- No on-site contracts list, bond-posting instructions, or itemized fee schedule was found; County Board chairperson was not confirmed from a page opened during this pass, though the county's own Directory of Public Officials document likely names one.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Outagamie 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