The Detention Center
Shawano County Jail / WRC
- Operated byShawano County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address405 N. Main St., Shawano, WI 54166
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
- FeesHaircut $12, beard trim $4, shave $6; a transaction fee is added to the bond amount for credit card bond payments
- Bond postingFAQ page describes methods and locations for posting bail
- Jail AdministratorTroy Beyer (Jail Administrator)
Source: Shawano County - Sheriff - Jail / WRC · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
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 George Lenzner
- Runs the jailShawano County Sheriff's Office operates the Shawano County Jail/WRC
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59; current term ends January 3, 2027
- 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: Shawano County Directory of Public Officials (co.shawano.wi.us) · 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.
Shawano 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 boardShawano County Board of Supervisors; Chair Tom Kautza →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Sheriff's Office jail/WRC page itself does not name the sheriff; confirmation of the current sheriff, George Lenzner, and his term came from the county's own Directory of Public Officials PDF, also hosted on co.shawano.wi.us.
- co.shawano.wi.us/departments/sheriff/ and its /general-information/staff/ subpage returned 404 errors at time of research and could not be fetched directly; the jail-wrc and jail-wrc/faq pages were reachable.
- The jail/WRC FAQ page covers property, communications, visitation, and bail/bond posting methods, but does not address capacity, PREA, or inspections.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Shawano 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