The Detention Center
Sawyer County Jail
- Operated bySawyer County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address15880 Fifth Street, Hayward, WI 54843 (mailing: PO Box 567, Hayward, WI 54843)
- Beds104 total: Huber Wing (built 1973) holds 34; secure wing (opened 2007) holds 52; 2009 and 2015 expansions added beds through remodeling and double bunking
- Booking fee$25.00
- Daily inmate fee (sentenced inmates)$10.00
- Huber fee$20.00/week
- Urine analysis fee$65.00
- Jail AdministratorLieutenant Michael A. Woller (Jail and Court Services Administrator)
Source: Sawyer County, WI - Jail Information · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1973 (Huber Wing); secure wing opened 2007
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds104
Since then
- 2009 remodel/double-bunking
- 2015 remodel/double-bunking
The Sheriff
Sheriff Doug Mrotek
- Runs the jailSawyer County Sheriff's Office operates the Sawyer 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: Sawyer County, WI - Sheriff's Office Staff Directory · 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.
Sawyer 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 boardSawyer County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The jail page links to an external bond-deposit system (deposits.jailatm.com) rather than publishing bond information on the county's own domain, so bond_info is recorded as 'no' per the audit rule that a commercial aggregator/processor does not count.
- The 2026 courthouse fee schedule (SC-Cthse-Fees-Payments-2026, hosted on sawyercounty.gov) lists jail/Huber/booking fees, satisfying the fees check.
- The Jail Inmate Roster is a PDF published directly on sawyercounty.gov listing current detainees by name, booking date, charges, satisfying the roster check.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sawyer 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