The Detention Center
Taylor County Jail
- Operated byTaylor County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressNot confirmed on the county's own site; Sheriff's Office is at 224 S 2nd St, Medford, WI 54451
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
Source: Taylor County, WI Government - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Larry Woebkeking
- Runs the jailTaylor County Sheriff's Office has custody of the county jail; page states: "It is the duty of the Sheriff to take charge and custody of the jail and the persons held there, and is responsible for Sheriff's Sales."
- 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: Taylor County, WI Government - 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.
Taylor 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 boardNot found →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- co.taylor.wi.us's sheriff page is a single general-duties/mission page; it does not link out to jail-specific subpages within the page content that was fetched, and none of the ten transparency items beyond naming the sheriff and department were found there.
- A search result for 'taylorsheriff.org' (Jail Information page) initially appeared relevant but was confirmed on inspection to be the Taylor County, Florida (or Georgia) Sheriff's Office — a same-named county in a different state — and was correctly excluded rather than mistakenly cited for Wisconsin's Taylor County.
- What was tried: https://co.taylor.wi.us/departments/sheriff/jail/ (robots.txt fetch failed/disallowed, tried twice), https://co.taylor.wi.us/departments/sheriff/jail (robots disallowed), https://co.taylor.wi.us/ (provenance/approval timeout), https://co.taylor.wi.us/departments/ (provenance/approval timeout), https://co.taylor.wi.us/departments/sheriff/administration/ (provenance/approval timeout).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Taylor 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