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Pierce County Jail Overview

Pierce County Jail is operated by the Pierce County Sheriff's Office at the Law Enforcement Center in Ellsworth. The sheriff's official page lists Sheriff Chad Koranda and Jail Administrator Ali Verges, with the jail phone separate from dispatch. The facility is the primary county jail for Pierce County. It holds pretrial defendants, sentenced county inmates, probation holds, warrant cases, other-county holds, other-state or extradition holds, and people connected to Huber, home detention, and home-monitoring programs.

The jail is not the courthouse. Jail visits, the lobby kiosk, mail, and current custody questions route to West Overlook Drive. Formal court charges and clerk records route to the courthouse on Main Street. This split matters because the jail roster may list a booking charge or hold while the court case later shows filed charges, hearing dates, bond conditions, and disposition. For the wider custody picture, the Pierce County inmate population page explains how the jail, Day Report Center, DOC locator, BOP locator, ICE ODLS, and VINELink fit together.

Pierce County Jail Building

The county's judicial facility history gives useful context for the current jail. Pierce County studied justice-facility needs in 1996 and 1997, reviewed a justice center proposal in 1998, formed jail and justice-system committees in 2012 and 2013, and authorized pursuit of a jail project and court planning in 2014. The official timeline says the new jail and sheriff's office were constructed and occupied in 2017. Later planning focused on courthouse security and court space, including a 2020 remodel of an old County Board Room into an additional hearing room.

The Pierce County Judicial Facility Project page documents the planning timeline that led to the current jail and sheriff's office.

The official project history helps explain why jail services are centered at the Law Enforcement Center rather than the courthouse downtown.

Pierce County Jail Roster Search

The official Pierce County Jail Roster is a document-center page with one PDF for each day of the week. It is free and does not require a login. It is also not a name-search database. The county says the prior day's roster is updated by 6 a.m. the next morning. If today is Wednesday, Tuesday is normally the newest report, and the Wednesday report should post by 6 a.m. Thursday. The past seven days are available, so a Thursday link may be last Thursday's report.

1. Open the Pierce County Jail Roster page and read the update note before searching.
2. Click the most recent day-of-week PDF for current custody, or check each daily PDF for a short stay.
3. Use the PDF viewer's Find command for the person's last name, agency, charge, status, or the phrase Total Inmates.
4. Read the full entry, including custody status, release date, bail, arresting agency, and hold status.
5. If the name is not found, call 715-273-1124 and select option 9 for the official jail phone fallback.

Pierce County Jail Record Fields

The inspected Saturday roster for June 27, 2026 listed "Pierce County Inmates in Custody" for that day and reported 47 total inmates in custody. Agencies visible in the sample included Pierce County Sheriff's Office, River Falls PD, Ellsworth PD, Prescott PD, Buffalo County, and the Department of Corrections. Status values included Cash Bond Set, Court/Pending, Sentenced, P.O. Hold, Hold Oth County, Hold Oth State, Time Served, To Responsible Party, and RELEASED. Several entries also appeared under Home Detention.

The roster did not show public mugshots, booking numbers in the extracted text, cell or pod locations, or court dates. For filed charges, search WCCA or contact the Clerk of Circuit Court. For booking photos, incident reports, older booking records, or copies, use the Sheriff's Office open-records process. A current roster entry is useful, but it should not be treated as a full criminal history.

Pierce County Jail Contact

The jail's public contact channels are direct and local. Use the jail number for custody questions, the sheriff's dispatch number for nonemergency routing, and the sheriff's records process for copies. The jail phone is the fastest official route when a person is not found on the PDF roster or when a hold, release time, or bond issue needs confirmation.

Pierce County Jail Visits

Video visitation uses InmateCanteen and TurnKey Corrections. The Pierce County Jail information PDF says a visitor creates an account at InmateCanteen, supplies name, address, phone number, valid ID, and access to a computer station that can take a photo. Jail staff reviews the account. People under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Only one person may visit an inmate at a time, and staff may terminate visits for excessive language, crude gestures, inappropriate dress, or nudity.

Attorney accounts have a separate verification path. First-time attorney users check the attorney box, provide a license number and law office, and wait for TurnKey verification. The PDF says verified attorney video calls, emails, and text messages will not be recorded. Attorney phone handling should still be confirmed with the facility.

Pierce County Jail Mail and Money

Jail mail must use the inmate's name and the Pierce County Jail mailing address. The sender must include a full return address, including name and complete address. Letters without a complete return address may go back to the post office. The jail information PDF says expletive pictures, personal checks, property, stamps, envelopes, and other contraband can be denied or returned at staff discretion.

Pierce County Jail Booking

In-custody booking usually begins with an arrest or transfer by a local agency such as the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, River Falls PD, Ellsworth PD, Prescott PD, another county, or DOC. Intake records the person's name, date of birth, address or homelessness as displayed, booking time, arresting agency, charges, custody status, and bail or hold information. The public roster is the visible daily output of that process, but the roster is delayed by design.

Booking does not always mean long overnight custody. The roster can show release, time served, sentenced status, home detention, or holds. Home-monitoring participants remain under Pierce County Jail authority and Sun Monitoring Justice Services rules. Violations can return a participant to jail, cause loss of good time, create new charges, or extend monitoring fees. For people summoned to court but not taken into custody, the Day Report Center may handle fingerprints and photos.

Detainer

A hold from another agency that can prevent release even when local bond is addressed.

Huber

Wisconsin jail work-release authority for eligible sentenced inmates.

P.O. hold

A probation or parole hold that can keep a person in custody.

Home detention

Jail-supervised confinement in the community rather than a standard jail cell.

Pierce County Jail Directions

The jail visitor destination is the Pierce County Law Enforcement Center at 555 West Overlook Drive in Ellsworth. The courthouse is at 414 W. Main Street, so bond payers, jail visitors, lobby kiosk users, and people checking custody should not route to the courthouse unless the task is court-specific. From WI-65 or the Ellsworth village area, route to West Overlook Drive. From Prescott, River Falls, or western Pierce County, use mapping to the Law Enforcement Center and confirm whether the destination is the jail lobby or the Day Report Center entrance.

Parking instructions are most specific for Day Report customers, who use the west-side six-stall lot. No county-published parking fee was found. No fixed-route transit instruction or separate ADA entrance description was located in the jail sources reviewed. Call the jail before arrival if accessibility, visit status, or lobby access needs to be confirmed.