Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center Overview

The Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center is operated by the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department Correctional Division. The official jail address is 2923 South 31st Street, Sheboygan, WI 53081-4612, and the main phone number is 920-459-1300. Sheriff Matt Spence is listed as sheriff, and the staff directory identifies Patrick Bricco as Jail Administrator and Paul Schneider as Deputy Corrections Administrator. The county describes the Correctional Division as the largest division of the Sheriff's Office.

This is a county jail, not a Wisconsin Department of Corrections prison. It holds adult male and female inmates from minimum to maximum security, including people awaiting court, people serving county jail sentences, Huber or work-release inmates, electronic monitoring participants still under jail administration, and people held on cash bond, fines, warrants, or child-support commitments. A person sentenced to state prison may pass through the jail temporarily, but the long-term prison lookup path is the Wisconsin DOC Offender Locator, not the county PDF roster.

The current Adult Detention Center opened in November 1998 after the county moved beyond the older second-floor jail space in the Law Enforcement Center. County material describes the building as a 95,000-square-foot, 295-bed detention center. The jail provides basic hygiene materials, meals, programming, education, counseling, religious services, and medical and mental-health care, but public pages do not publish a housing-unit map or pod-by-pod capacity breakdown.

Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center Capacity and Population

The county-published capacity for the Adult Detention Center is 295 beds. The official in-custody PDF inspected for the research file reported "Total Housed: 347" with a report date and time of 07/01/2026 at 10:19:09 AM. That number is a dated roster snapshot, not an average daily population and not proof that every person was inside one housing unit. It is still the clearest current county population figure available from the official roster.

Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities data gives broader context. Sheboygan adult jail admissions were 3,208 in 2025, down 4.4 percent from 3,354 in 2024. The same research sequence lists adult admissions of 3,466 in 2018, 3,514 in 2019, 2,277 in 2020, 2,367 in 2021, 2,639 in 2022, and 2,891 in 2023. Those admission counts measure jail intake volume over a year, while the county PDF measures people housed on a particular report date.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center

The official county lookup is the Sheboygan County Current Inmate List. It links to an in-custody PDF, not a searchable web database. The page says the list is updated in the morning, Monday through Friday. The PDF includes ID, last name, first name, middle name or initial, age, and gender. It does not show charges, bond, booking date, mugshot, housing unit, arresting agency, court date, or a click-through inmate profile.

1. Open the county Current Inmate List page and select the In-Custody List PDF.
2. Check the report date and time at the top of the PDF before relying on the result.
3. Use the PDF find function to search by last name, then compare first name, middle name, age, and gender.
4. If the person is not listed, call the jail at 920-459-1300, register for VINE notification, check WCCA for a court filing, or search the Wisconsin DOC locator if prison custody is possible.

Because the roster is a weekday-morning snapshot, a weekend booking or a person booked after the morning report may not appear immediately. A missing name also does not prove there was no arrest. The person may have been released, transferred, held in another county, moved to DOC custody, or connected to federal or immigration custody. For custody-status notifications, the county directs users to Wisconsin VINE through VINELink or by phone at 1-888-944-8463.

Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center Address and Contact

Use the South 31st Street address for jail visits, deposits, correctional records drop-off, and detention-center business. The county's Adult Detention Center page is the source for local visitation, mail, phone, money, and bond instructions. Do not confuse the jail with the Sheriff's Department and Law Enforcement Center at 525 North 6th Street or the courthouse offices at 615 North 6th Street. Fine payments, child-support holds, Clerk of Circuit Courts records, and DA filings may require a different downtown office even when the person is housed at the jail.

Visiting Someone at Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center

All personal visitors must register with Securus, including visitors who come to the jail for on-site video visitation. The county allows remote video visits every day and on-site video visits on limited days. Visits are recorded and electronically monitored except approved attorney and other protected professional visits. Adults must be registered, children must be registered, and the first visit for a child requires a birth certificate or valid document showing the inmate is a legal guardian.

Visitor conduct and clothing rules are enforced by jail staff. No cell phones, cameras, recording devices, food, beverages, books, magazines, paper, or writing materials are allowed in visitation. Visitors must wear footwear and conservative, respectable clothing. No more than two guests may be in view for each 20-minute visit; on site, the county limits each session to two adults and one child, or one adult and two children.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center

Personal mail no longer goes directly to the Sheboygan Detention Center or jail. Since 05/01/2023, personal mail has been routed through the Securus Digital Mail Center, scanned, and made available on tablets or kiosks. The physical mail is destroyed 60 days after upload, and scanned mail remains available for 30 days after release. Legal mail, approved publisher publications, and money orders still go directly to the facility.

Incoming inmate phone calls and messages are not accepted. Pod phones are outgoing collect or operator-assisted calls, three-way calls are prohibited, and calls are recorded and monitored. Phones operate from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM with a 15-minute limit. Cash deposits are made at the kiosk in the Detention Center entrance. Mailed funds must be a money order or cashier's check and may not exceed $500.

Booking and Intake at Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center

The county does not publish a full booking manual, but local pages show how the correctional system is organized. The division includes booking clerks, correction officers, supervisors, an Alternatives to Incarceration Coordinator, an Electronic Monitoring Officer, ATI officers, and a Classification/Court Officer. A new arrest normally moves through identification, booking entry, property handling, warrant or hold checks, safety screening, classification, and placement. The public PDF does not display the full booking record.

Huber and electronic monitoring have their own intake rules after sentencing. A person beginning a Huber sentence must contact the Detention Center, obtain a Huber packet, complete the required paperwork, and arrange a turn-in date. Required documents can include driver's license and insurance if driving, business paperwork for self-employment, or childcare documents. The county lists Huber and EMP up-front costs, including a $205 working or childcare EMP total, $100 for a full-time college student not employed, and $30 for a full-time high school student not employed.

About Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center

The Adult Detention Center is one part of a two-campus local custody system. The adult jail is on South 31st Street, while the Sheriff's Department, Law Enforcement Center, and Juvenile Detention Center are downtown on North 6th Street. Court and District Attorney offices are at 615 North 6th Street. That distinction matters for families trying to visit, pay a bond or fine, request records, or find a court filing after an arrest.

Programs and services named in county research include education, counseling, religious services, medical and mental-health care, Good News Jail Ministry, veterans treatment court links, and alternatives to incarceration. The jail is also subject to Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities oversight under state detention-facility authority. For more detailed booking records, photos, incident reports, or documents not shown on the PDF, use the Sheriff's open-records request process. The Sheriff's page warns that active or open cases may not be released and that juvenile-related information may be redacted.