Waupaca County, Wisconsin — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Waupaca County Jail

Operated byWaupaca County Sheriff's Department
Jail address1402 East Royalton Street, Waupaca, WI
Beds320-inmate capacity; average daily population approximately 200; opened in 2001
Medical servicesProvided through Wellpath
Jail AdministratorAdam Wogsland — Captain / Jail Administrator; Lieutenant Jason Russell serves as Operations Director

Source: Waupaca County Sheriff's Department · 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
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Waupaca County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-19. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year built2001
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds320

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Timothy R. Wilz

Runs the jailThe Waupaca County Sheriff's Department Corrections Division operates the county jail, which also houses inmates from Wood, Portage, and Brown Counties
How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59
Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff has custody of the county jail)

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Waupaca County Sheriff's Department · 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.

Waupaca County Circuit Court

Not found

Still needed

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 decidedNot found

Notes on the record

The jail houses pre-trial and sentenced inmates from Wood, Portage, and Brown Counties in addition to Waupaca County, and contracts medical services through Wellpath — both counted as 'contracts' disclosures.
No PREA page, bond posting page, itemized fee schedule, budget figures, inspection reports, or death records were found on the county's own site.
State inspection/oversight: Wisconsin DOC Division of Community Corrections inspects county jails under Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350; applicability to Waupaca County jail not independently confirmed on the sheriff's site.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Waupaca 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