The Detention Center
St. Croix County Jail
- Operated bySt. Croix County Sheriff's Office - Jail Corrections Bureau
- Jail address1101 Carmichael Road, Suite G200, Hudson, WI 54016
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
- Booking/processing fee (sentenced inmates)$25
- Huber daily fee$20/day
- Out-of-county inmate housing fee$60/day
- Municipal housing fee$30/day
- Bond kiosk fee$3 cash / 10% credit card, available 24/7 in jail lobby; online via JAILATM.com after calling the jail
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Joseph Kormanik (Jail Captain)
Source: St. Croix County, WI - Accounts and Fees · 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 Scott Knudson
- Runs the jailSt. Croix County Sheriff's Office operates the St. Croix County Jail through its Jail Corrections Bureau
- 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: St. Croix County, WI - Office of 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.
St. Croix 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 boardSt. Croix County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's own Jail FAQ page links out to an 'Inmate Roster and Public Safety Portal' hosted at stcroix-so-wi.zuercherportal.com, a third-party-hosted records system rather than a page on sccwi.gov itself, so roster is recorded as 'no' per the rule that 'yes' requires a URL on the office's own domain.
- A news report (CBS News Minnesota, not the county's own site) described a woman, Danyiel Mager of New Richmond, found unresponsive and later dead in the St. Croix County Jail after being booked on outstanding warrants; the report said cause/manner of death was pending determination by the Ramsey County (MN) Medical Examiner's Office. This was not found published on the county's own site, so 'deaths' is recorded as 'no' per the audit rule (only the office's own site counts), though the underlying event is noted here for context.
- No jail capacity/bed count, budget, PREA information, inspection reports, or contracts were found published on sccwi.gov.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in St. Croix 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