Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center Overview
The Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center is operated by the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department Correctional Division. It is located at 525 North 6th Street, Sheboygan, WI 53081, in the east wing of the Law Enforcement Center. The facility phone number is 920-459-1300, and the research file lists fax 920-459-0547. The county identifies the Juvenile Detention Center as a secure juvenile detention facility, not an adult jail and not a state prison.
The facility holds male and female juveniles in county custody. County material says juveniles who are not afforded the opportunity for community school release and counseling attend in-house school and counseling through Campus Life. That detail is important because the juvenile facility is not simply a booking list. It is part of a county youth custody system that intersects with juvenile court, school arrangements, counseling, and confidentiality rules.
Public pages should not treat this facility like the Sheboygan County Adult Detention Center. The county's adult in-custody PDF is limited to current adult jail custody and does not publish juvenile detainees. The Sheriff's open-records page also specifically lists records relating to juveniles among information that may be redacted or removed. For that reason, the public path is not a name search by the general public; it is contact through the Sheriff's Correctional Division, counsel, the court process, or another authorized channel.
Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center Capacity and Population
The county Correctional Division page describes the Juvenile Detention Center as a 27-bed secure juvenile detention center. Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities data adds admissions context. The 2025 report lists Sheboygan juvenile detention admissions at 219, with 182 male admissions, 37 female admissions, and 0 non-gendered admissions. That 2025 total was a 9.9 percent decrease from 243 juvenile admissions in 2024.
The multi-year juvenile sequence in the research file shows how local juvenile detention volume changed from 2018 through 2025: 391 in 2018, 318 in 2019, 247 in 2020, 241 in 2021, 199 in 2022, 208 in 2023, 243 in 2024, and 219 in 2025. Those are annual admissions, not a live count of youths currently housed on any given day. The research did not locate a public daily juvenile roster or a current headcount comparable to the adult jail PDF.
How to Look Up Youth Custody at Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
There is no official public juvenile roster in the research file. The adult Sheboygan County Current Inmate List should not be used as a juvenile custody search because it is an adult in-custody PDF. Juvenile custody information may be limited to parents or guardians, legal counsel, case participants, and authorized agencies. If the issue involves a court case, juvenile court and the Clerk of Circuit Courts process may control access to records rather than the public jail list.
- Do not rely on the adult current inmate PDF for juvenile custody; it is not a juvenile list.
- Call the Correctional Division at 920-459-1300 if you are a parent, guardian, attorney, or otherwise authorized to ask about custody routing.
- Use the appropriate juvenile court or counsel channel for case status, hearings, placement orders, and records access.
- Expect redaction or nondisclosure when a request involves juvenile records, active cases, protected information, or a statutory confidentiality rule.
Wisconsin's public-records policy is broad, but juvenile records are one of the areas where access can narrow quickly. The Sheriff's open-records page lists juvenile-related records in its redaction and removal warnings, along with informant information, some DOT personal information, and certain employer-gathered contact details. A person seeking a juvenile detention record should be precise about their role, the youth's identity, the court or incident number if known, and the reason access is authorized.
Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center Address and Contact
The Juvenile Detention Center is downtown at the Law Enforcement Center, not at the South 31st Street adult jail campus. This address distinction matters. The adult jail, Securus mail policies, adult video visitation, adult deposits, and the public PDF roster are tied to the Adult Detention Center. Juvenile detention is listed at North 6th Street and should be approached through the correctional or juvenile-court channel appropriate to the youth's case.
Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
525 North 6th Street
Sheboygan, WI 53081
920-459-1300
Secure juvenile detention information and authorized custody routing.
Visiting Someone at Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
The research file did not locate a public juvenile visitation schedule comparable to the adult jail's Securus schedule. That absence should not be filled with adult rules. Juvenile visits are usually controlled by facility policy, court orders, parent or guardian status, caseworker involvement, and safety rules. Call the correctional contact number before travel and be ready to explain your relationship to the youth and the purpose of the visit.
The adult jail rules are useful only as contrast. Adult visitors must register with Securus and follow published video visitation windows. The juvenile facility is a different custody setting inside the Law Enforcement Center, and its rules may limit visitors to parents, guardians, attorneys, approved professionals, or other persons authorized by staff or court order. Do not assume a public walk-in visit is available just because the adult facility has posted video visit hours.
| Visit / Contact Type | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Parent or guardian inquiry | Call ahead; public schedule not located | Authorized juvenile custody contact |
| Attorney or legal visit | Coordinate with facility or court channel | Professional access subject to rules |
| Caseworker, counselor, or school-related contact | Coordinate through official channel | Professional or program contact |
| General public visit | No public open-visit schedule located | Not treated like adult jail visitation |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
The county research provides detailed adult jail rules for Securus mail scanning, phone cards, money orders, and kiosk deposits, but it does not provide a matching public mail, phone, or commissary schedule for the Juvenile Detention Center. For that reason, juvenile pages should not copy the adult jail's Securus Digital Mail Center instructions into youth custody. Ask the facility which communication methods are allowed for the particular youth and whether parent, guardian, attorney, or court approval is required.
When a request involves records rather than communication, use the Sheriff's public records process only with the understanding that juvenile material may be redacted or withheld. The Sheriff's request form asks for requestor contact information, incident number if known, date and nature of incident, location, persons involved with date of birth, and the records requested. Photos, written statements, dispatch audio, body-worn camera video, citations, accident reports, and other digital media are all possible request categories, but juvenile confidentiality can limit release.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Public juvenile mail format not located; call the facility before sending anything. |
| Phone / Video | Juvenile communication rules were not published in the reviewed county pages. |
| Money Deposit | No public juvenile commissary or deposit schedule located in the research file. |
Admission and Intake at Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
Juvenile detention intake is different from adult booking. The research file identifies the facility as secure juvenile detention for male and female youths and notes in-house school and counseling through Campus Life when juveniles are not released for community school and counseling. It does not publish an intake manual, housing classification chart, or daily operational schedule. The safe local statement is that youth custody runs through the Sheriff's Correctional Division and the juvenile-court system, with additional confidentiality controls around records.
The District Attorney's office in Sheboygan County prosecutes juvenile matters including delinquencies, truancies, juvenile ordinance violations, and inoculation violations. The Clerk of Circuit Courts maintains juvenile placement orders along with other circuit-court records, but juvenile case access is not the same as adult WCCA access. If the purpose is to find a hearing date or placement order, the juvenile court channel is more relevant than a jail roster. If the purpose is immediate custody or release status, contact should begin with the authorized correctional or legal channel.
About Sheboygan County Juvenile Detention Center
The Juvenile Detention Center is part of Sheboygan County's correctional footprint but sits at a different public-record boundary from the Adult Detention Center. The adult system has a weekday current housed PDF showing ID, name, age, and gender. The juvenile system does not have a public roster in the research file, and its records may involve school, counseling, family, juvenile court, and confidentiality concerns. Public pages should preserve that distinction instead of blending juvenile information into adult inmate-search language.
Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities reporting includes secure juvenile detention centers in statewide oversight and statistics. The Sheboygan juvenile admission trend gives a useful population signal without exposing individual youth identities. The 2025 total of 219 admissions, with 182 male and 37 female, can be used to understand facility volume, but not to identify a detained youth. Individual identity and status questions require an authorized route.
Note: Confirm visitor authorization, custody status, and record access rules with the facility or court before going downtown.