The Detention Center
Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center
- Operated bySheboygan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2923 South 31st Street, Sheboygan, WI 53081-4612
- Beds295 beds; 95,000-square-foot facility
- Juvenile facilitySheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center, 525 North 6th Street, Sheboygan, WI 53081; 27 beds
- Medical careAdvanced Correctional Healthcare (named on the county's own site as a linked service)
Source: Sheboygan County - Correctional Division · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓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 — 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
- Beds295
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matt Spence
- Runs the jailSheboygan County Sheriff's Office operates the Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59; described on the county's site as the 57th Sheriff of Sheboygan County (office established 1846)
- 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: Sheboygan County - Meet the Sheriff · 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.
Sheboygan 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 boardSheboygan County Board of Supervisors; Chairperson Keith Abler →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Adult Detention Center page links to a 'Current Inmate List' sub-page and a 'Posting Bonds/Paying Fines' sub-page, but both returned 403 errors when fetched directly and their content could not be confirmed, so roster and bond_info/fees are recorded as 'no' rather than assumed.
- What was tried: https://www.sheboygancounty.com/departments/departments-r-z/sheriff-s-department/correctional-division/adult-detention-center/current-inmate-list (403 error, retried once), https://www.sheboygancounty.com/departments/departments-r-z/sheriff-s-department/correctional-division/adult-detention-center/posting-bonds-paying-fines (403 error, retried once).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sheboygan 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