Pierce County Inmate Population
The Pierce County inmate population centers on the Pierce County Jail in Ellsworth, which is operated by the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. The jail holds adults arrested for Pierce County courts, people serving county jail sentences, probation holds, other-county holds, warrant cases, and people tied to Huber, home detention, or other jail-supervised programs. The Pierce County Day Report Center is part of the same local custody system, but it is not a separate overnight jail. It handles reporting functions such as initial-appearance booking steps, fingerprints, photos, drug and alcohol tests, DNA collection, and home-monitoring hookups.
Population data for Pierce County comes from two different kinds of official sources. The daily county roster gives a public count for one report day. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections Office of Detention Facilities annual report gives multi-year county jail admissions and statewide jail population context. Those sources do not publish every number readers often expect. A rated bed capacity, Pierce-specific average daily population, local race or sex aggregate table, and average length of stay were not found in the official text sources reviewed, so those measures should not be inferred from the daily roster count.
Pierce County Inmate Population Statistics
The sampled official Saturday roster reported 47 total inmates in custody for June 27, 2026. That figure is a daily roster count, not a monthly average and not a capacity percentage. The Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities annual report listed 917 Pierce adult county jail admissions in 2025, down from 1,099 in 2024. The same report gave statewide context: Wisconsin county jails had 162,283 admissions and an average daily population of 11,718 in 2025. It also reported a statewide 2025 county jail gender split of 76 percent male and 24 percent female, but the research did not locate a Pierce-only aggregate gender table.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Pierce County Jail public daily count | 47 inmates | Official Saturday roster, June 27, 2026 |
| Pierce adult county jail admissions | 917 | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2025 |
| Admissions change | -16.6% | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2024 to 2025 |
| Wisconsin county jail admissions | 162,283 | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2025 |
| Wisconsin county jail average daily population | 11,718 | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2025 |
| Pierce rated jail capacity | Not located in official text sources reviewed | Sheriff, jail PDF, roster, project page, and ODF sources |
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office page is also useful because it identifies the local agency, sheriff, jail administrator, Law Enforcement Center, and jail phone line tied to the roster count. The screenshot below comes from that official sheriff source and anchors the local custody system to the office that maintains the jail.
The sheriff page confirms that local custody questions should start with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office and Pierce County Jail, not the courthouse or state prison locator.
Pierce County Inmate Population Trends
Pierce County admissions fell sharply from 2018 through 2021, then rose again in 2022 through 2024 before dropping in 2025. The DOC annual report row for Pierce shows 1,200 adult county jail admissions in 2018 and 574 in 2021. By 2024, admissions reached 1,099, then declined to 917 in 2025. Statewide data in the same report gives context for that pattern: Wisconsin county jail average daily population fell to 9,612 in 2020 after a 28.5 percent decline, then rose 22 percent by 2025.
| Year | Pierce Adult Jail Admissions | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,200 | High baseline in the ODF table |
| 2019 | 1,049 | Lower than 2018 |
| 2020 | 611 | Sharp COVID-era reduction |
| 2021 | 574 | Lowest year in the 2018 to 2025 row |
| 2022 | 1,019 | Rebound near the 2019 level |
| 2023 | 989 | Slightly below 2022 |
| 2024 | 1,099 | Highest post-2020 year in the table |
| 2025 | 917 | Down 16.6 percent from 2024 |
Pierce County Jail Custody Makeup
The Pierce County inmate population is not limited to people charged by one agency. The sampled roster showed arrests or holds tied to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, River Falls Police Department, Ellsworth Police Department, Prescott Police Department, Buffalo County, and the Department of Corrections. Status values included cash bond set, court pending, sentenced, probation officer hold, other-county hold, other-state hold, time served, and released. Several entries were tied to home detention or other jail-supervised statuses. That means one daily roster can mix people sleeping in the jail, people held for another agency, people under a DOC hold, and people in a jail-run alternative.
- Booking
- The jail intake event that creates a local custody record.
- P.O. hold
- A probation or parole hold that may keep a person in custody even when local bond is low or paid.
- Huber or work release
- A Wisconsin jail privilege that can let an eligible sentenced person leave for approved work.
- Home detention
- Jail-supervised custody in the community, subject to monitoring and return-to-jail rules.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency, county, state, or federal authority.
Laws for Pierce County Inmates
Wisconsin law explains why parts of the Pierce County inmate population can be viewed or requested, but it does not require every jail record or booking photo to be posted online. Public access starts with Wisconsin's public-records policy, then narrows through request rules, jail authority statutes, jail standards, bond law, and expungement law. These laws matter because the daily roster is only one access point. Older booking records, incident reports, and possible booking photographs may require an open-records request to the sheriff, while formal charges and case outcomes are court records.
Key Wisconsin rules:
Wis. Stat. 19.31 states Wisconsin's broad public-records policy, subject to legal limits.
Wis. Stat. 19.35 covers inspection, copying, and allowed record fees.
Wis. Stat. 302.31 describes lawful county jail uses, including charged persons, local sentences, transfers, and other lawful custody.
Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350 sets minimum Wisconsin jail design, construction, and operation standards.
Wis. Stat. 302.383 requires annual reporting on prisoner mental-health service categories.
Search Pierce County Jail Roster
The official Pierce County Jail Roster page is a Revize document center with seven daily PDF reports. It is not a live name-search database. The county says the previous day's roster is updated by 6 AM the next day. If today is Wednesday, the most current report is usually Tuesday's report, and clicking Thursday will show last Thursday's report until the new Thursday file posts. For current custody, open the latest posted PDF and use the PDF viewer's Find command to search for a last name, agency, charge, status, or total count.
- Open the Pierce County Jail Roster page and read the county update note before choosing a day.
- Click the most recent day-of-week PDF for current custody, or check all seven PDFs for a recent release.
- Use the browser or PDF Find function for a last name. Short name fragments help when spelling is uncertain.
- Read the full entry, including arresting agency, charges, status, bail, custody status, and release field.
- If the person is not listed, call the jail at 715-273-1124 and select option 9.
- If the person was sentenced to prison, use the Wisconsin DOC locator instead of the county roster.
| Roster Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search for file name | Text | No | Searches document names, not inmate names inside the PDFs. |
| Jail Roster category | Document category | Yes | Contains the seven daily roster documents. |
| Day-of-week document link | PDF link | Yes | Each report covers that day from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. |
| PDF browser search | Find command | No | The practical way to search by name, charge, status, agency, or total. |
Pierce County Inmate Record Fields
A Pierce County roster entry is a public daily list entry, not a full profile page. The inspected Saturday PDF showed the report title and date range, housed-at line, booking date and time, arresting agency, charge text, status, bail, name, DOB, custody status, release date and time when present, address, and the total inmates in custody line. It did not show a mugshot, booking number, housing pod, cell assignment, or court date. For formal court dates, charge amendments, judgments, and sentence orders, use Wisconsin Circuit Court Access or the Pierce County Clerk of Circuit Court.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking date and time | When the jail intake event was recorded. |
| Arresting agency | The sheriff, police, DOC, or other agency tied to the charge or hold. |
| Charges | Roster charge text, which may differ from formal court charges. |
| Status | Examples include cash bond set, court pending, sentenced, P.O. hold, or released. |
| Bail | The displayed dollar amount, if any, tied to the entry or charge. |
| Mugshot | Not shown in the inspected Pierce County roster PDFs. |
Pierce County Custody Lookup Channels
County jail, state prison, federal custody, immigration detention, and victim notification are separate systems. The Wisconsin DOC general information page says city and county jails are administered separately from DOC, so a person not found in the DOC locator may still be in a county jail. The reverse is also true. A Pierce County arrestee who receives a prison sentence may leave the local jail and enter DOC custody elsewhere in Wisconsin. No DOC prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center was found physically inside Pierce County in the official sources reviewed.
| System | Use It For | Official Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Pierce County Jail | Current or recent local jail custody, local holds, county jail sentences | Seven-day roster PDFs or jail phone option 9 |
| Wisconsin DOC | Sentenced state prisoners and DOC-supervised offenders | DOC Offender Locator |
| Federal BOP | Federal inmates from 1982 to present | BOP Inmate Locator |
| ICE ODLS | Immigration custody searches | ICE Online Detainee Locator System |
| VINELink | Custody-change notifications where available | VINELink |
The Wisconsin DOC locator screenshot below shows the state search channel for sentenced custody. It should not be treated as a replacement for the Pierce County roster when the person is still in local jail custody.
Use DOC for prison custody and supervision records. Use the county jail roster or jail phone for new arrests and local holds.
Pierce County Detention Facilities
The Pierce County facility map is compact. The Pierce County Jail is the primary overnight detention facility. The Pierce County Day Report Center is a jail-program access point on the west side of the jail, used for reporting, testing, fingerprints, photos, DNA, and home-monitoring setup. State prisoners from Pierce County are located through Wisconsin DOC after transfer. Federal prisoners use BOP. Immigration detainees use ICE ODLS.
- Pierce County Jail - the county jail for pretrial detainees, county sentences, probation holds, other-county holds, and jail-supervised release programs.
- Pierce County Day Report Center - an appointment-based reporting and service point, not a separate overnight housing unit.
Pierce County Arrest Records Path
The roster is only the jail stage. After arrest and booking, Wisconsin procedure moves toward initial appearance, prosecutor review, and court filing. Pierce County Circuit Court maintains criminal files, hearing minutes, court orders, jail and prison sentences, and notices of hearing dates. The Pierce County District Attorney, led by Halle Hatch in the official county source, prosecutes county and state criminal charges. A roster charge is not a conviction, and the District Attorney may file a different charge than the booking text shown in the jail PDF.
Bond questions also cross systems. The jail information PDF says bond can be paid from inmate account funds, through the Clerk of Courts during business hours, or through GovPayNet/AllPaid. A P.O. hold, other-county hold, other-state hold, DOC probation violation, or extradition issue can stop release even when a cash bond appears. For booking photos, the inspected Pierce County roster did not show mugshots. Use the Pierce County jail mugshots page for the public-photo limits and request process.
Pierce County Sheriff App
The Pierce County Sheriff WI mobile app appears in both the Google Play listing and the Apple App Store listing. The store descriptions say the app helps residents report crimes, submit tips, use interactive sheriff communication features, and receive public safety news. The reviewed listings did not verify an inmate roster, warrant search, mugshot gallery, records-request tool, commissary link, or court lookup feature inside the app.
The Google Play screenshot below is relevant because it confirms the official sheriff app channel. Custody lookup should still use the roster PDFs, jail phone option 9, DOC, BOP, ICE, WCCA, or VINELink depending on the custody level.
The app is best treated as a public-safety communication channel unless the sheriff later documents a specific custody lookup feature.
Pierce County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Pierce County inmate population? The sampled official roster reported 47 total inmates in custody on June 27, 2026. That is a daily public roster count. It is not a published average daily population or rated-capacity measure.
How do I search for a Pierce County inmate? Start with the official seven-day roster PDFs, choose the most recent posted day, and use the PDF Find command. If the name is missing, call 715-273-1124 and select option 9.
Does the Pierce County roster show mugshots? The inspected roster PDFs did not show mugshots, thumbnails, or profile photos. A booking photo request should go through the Sheriff's Office open-records process if a photo exists and is releasable.
Where are prison inmates from Pierce County listed? Sentenced state prisoners use the Wisconsin DOC locator. Federal inmates use BOP. Immigration detainees use ICE ODLS. These are separate from the county jail roster.
Are released inmates still listed? The county keeps seven daily PDF reports available, so a short stay or recent release may appear in one of those reports. Older booking records require the sheriff records process.
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