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Wexford County Jail Overview

Wexford County Sheriff's Office operates Wexford County Jail as the main local detention facility for the county. The jail and sheriff's administrative office share the Lincoln Street site in Cadillac. County materials describe the sheriff's office as responsible for law enforcement, corrections, animal control, and public safety services, while the jail side handles inmate care, custody, and control.

The Wexford County Jail population is local jail custody. That means people arrested in Wexford County who have not finished court, people serving local jail sentences, people waiting for release or transfer, and people temporarily held on another agency's order. No official separate Wexford County work-release annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility was located in the reviewed official sources. Cadillac has a municipal police department, but no separate Cadillac jail roster was identified.

The sheriff and county pages list Sheriff Trent Taylor and Undersheriff Jeffrey Harnish in the current leadership block, with Michael McDaniel identified as the Corrections Lieutenant. The office also lists marine, snowmobile, and ORV patrols, a dive team, emergency response staff, crime scene technicians, accident investigators, and fire investigators. Those services explain why the sheriff's public pages cover more than jail custody, even though the jail is the key detention point for local arrests.

Wexford County Jail Contacts

Custody questions should start with the jail phone line when a current Wexford County Jail inmate cannot be searched online. The sheriff contact page publishes the jail phone, sheriff office phone, jail fax, office fax, general email, address, and public office hours. Call before traveling for records, lobby service, or visit-related questions because the sheriff homepage has carried temporary administrative-office closure notices.

The sheriff contact page shows the jail and sheriff contact block used for Wexford County Jail questions.

The contact information separates the sheriff office line from the jail line, which matters when the question is current custody rather than general records or administration.

Wexford County Jail Capacity

Current official rated capacity and current population were not published on the sheriff or county pages reviewed for Wexford County Jail. Construction and opening coverage reported that the jail opened in 2017 with 158 beds, replacing a former 32-bed jail built in 1962. Those reports also described the project as a larger sheriff and jail complex with updated security and technology. Because that number comes from construction and opening coverage rather than a current county dashboard, it should be read as building history unless the sheriff or county later publishes a current rated capacity.

The same research found no official dashboard for current average daily population, annual bookings, average stay, demographic breakdown, pretrial split, sentenced split, or hold-for-other-agency count. Wexford County Jail population changes with arrests, court bond decisions, releases, transfers to MDOC, and holds from other agencies. Do not treat a past capacity figure as a live count.

Wexford County Jail Lookup Chain

No official Wexford County Jail current-inmate roster, released-inmate list, booking report, mugshot gallery, or searchable jail profile was located on the sheriff site, county site, MiCOURT court pages, or official search results reviewed. The sheriff jail navigation instead publishes service pages for visitation, mail, commissary, inmate accounts, money orders, and FOIA. For a current inmate lookup, the practical path is a chain of official channels.

1. Call Wexford County Jail at 231-779-9217 for current custody status. Have the person's full name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
2. Go in person to the sheriff and jail public counter at 1015 Lincoln St. in Cadillac during posted public office hours when a counter visit is needed. Call first to confirm lobby access.
3. Use Wexford County FOIA for written booking records, booking photos, jail records, incident reports, or arrest records. Requests may go through the county form, JustFOIA, FOIA@wexfordcounty.org, fax, mail, or delivery.
4. Search MiCOURT Case Search after court filing for criminal case events, charges, hearings, and bond orders. Court records are not the same as live jail custody.
5. Search MDOC OTIS after a prison sentence or when the person is under state parole or probation supervision. OTIS does not include county jail inmates.
6. Use Michigan VINE for custody and case notifications where available, or call VINE at 1-800-770-7657.
7. Use the BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal custody, and use the U.S. Marshals or federal court chain for federal pretrial custody questions.
8. Use ICE ODLS for adult immigration custody, searched by A-number or by name, country of birth, and birth date.

Wexford County Jail Visitation

Wexford County Jail uses CIDNET for on-site kiosk visits and home-user video visits. On-site visits are non-contact at jail kiosks, limited to one per day, and last 30 minutes. The sheriff visitation rules require advance scheduling. Staff approve scheduled contacts during business hours, excluding holidays, and after-hours requests are handled on the next business day.

The Wexford County Jail visitation page gives the schedule, advance scheduling rules, ID requirements, missed-visit penalties, and conduct limits.

The published rules make scheduling and timely sign-in important because missed visits can lead to escalating denial periods.

Visitors are subject to search. Tobacco, bags, drinks, food, weapons, lighters, cell phones, cameras, and recording devices are not permitted in the visitation area. Visitors age 12 and older need picture identification, and visitors 17 or younger must be with a parent or legal guardian with the required paperwork. A no-contact order or personal protection order can bar a visit.

Wexford County Jail Mail

Wexford County Jail allows inmates to send and receive mail, but the personal incoming mail rule is narrow. Incoming personal mail must be a postcard no larger than 4.25 by 6.0 inches. Larger postcards are returned to sender. Pre-printed photo postcards may be accepted if the image is not explicit or graphic, and legal correspondence from attorneys and courts is accepted as legal mail.

The sheriff's mail policy states the postcard-only rule and the legal-mail exception for Wexford County Jail mail.

That mail rule is one of the most specific local details for families because ordinary letters can be rejected when they do not fit the postcard policy.

Wexford County Jail Money

Wexford County Jail uses JailATM for online deposits and STELLAR for commissary orders. The sheriff commissary page says commissary deposits must be made by Tuesday at 11:00 p.m. and that the inmate name, inmate number, and location must match exactly. The inmate-account page also warns that jail balances may be used for housing, medical, or other owed fees under the posted account rules.

For commissary, the sheriff page lists example kits and prices, including beverage, lunch, snack, and diabetic packs. Orders cannot be canceled once placed. If an inmate is released or transferred before an order is processed, the order may be canceled; if already processed, items may be held for inmate or designee pickup for up to 30 days.

The Wexford County Jail commissary page lists the deposit deadline, STELLAR commissary vendor, JailATM instructions, and sample kit pricing.

The commissary details are useful because Wexford publishes both the weekly cutoff and local kit examples rather than only naming a payment vendor.

Wexford County Jail Bond

Bond questions need direct confirmation before any payment. The sheriff's inmate-account page gives a local instruction that should come first: call the Corrections Division before paying bond at 231-779-9216, option 3. Also confirm the person is still held at Wexford County Jail by calling 231-779-9217. A court order, another hold, a parole or probation detainer, a bench warrant, an immigration detainer, or a no-bond status can stop release even when one bond appears payable.

Cash bond means money paid to secure release. Surety bond means a surety or bail agent posts bond where allowed. Personal recognizance, also called personal bond, means release based on a promise to appear and follow conditions. Conditional release can include no contact, testing, travel limits, or reporting. The $12 state booking fee is separate from bond and should not be treated as a release amount.

Wexford County Jail Records

Booking at Wexford County Jail follows the usual local jail path: arrest or warrant execution, transport for lodging, identity and property processing, safety and medical screening, account setup, classification, and court appearance. Local arrests can come from the Wexford County Sheriff's Office, Cadillac Police Department, Michigan State Police, or another agency. If the person is sentenced to prison, the custody record later shifts toward MDOC OTIS rather than the county jail.

Written public-record requests go through Wexford County FOIA. The sheriff FOIA page says written requests are answered within five working days unless an extension applies. The county FOIA summary says a request must describe the record well enough for the county to find it and may be submitted by form, letter, fax, email, mail, delivery, or the JustFOIA portal. Verbal FOIA requests are not accepted under the county summary.

Michigan FOIA, including MCL 15.231, MCL 15.233, and MCL 15.234, frames public access to nonexempt public records, inspection and copies, and fee rules. Fees can include search, examination, separation or deletion, duplication, and mailing within statutory limits. The county summary says a deposit can be required when estimated processing costs exceed $50, and standard paper copies cannot exceed $0.10 per letter or legal sheet.

Wexford County Jail Context

Cadillac is the key geography for Wexford County jail and court questions, but the offices are not all at the same address. Jail custody questions go to the sheriff and jail site on Lincoln Street. Court records, the prosecutor, community corrections, county administration, FOIA routing, and MDOC probation or parole offices are centered around East Division Street. That split matters when a family member is trying to find a person, post bond, file a records request, or check the next court date.

Local community-corrections services are tied to Wexford and Missaukee Counties and include testing hours, supervision context, and program work funded in part through a state Public Act 511 grant. MDOC probation and parole in Cadillac is a supervision office, not a prison. A person held in Wexford County Jail may later move into state custody after a prison sentence, but that does not make the local MDOC office a detention facility.

Michigan jail standards also affect the facility even when the sheriff page does not publish program details. MDOC administrative jail rules address written policies for fire prevention, emergency release, security threats, inmate rights, food service, health, sanitation, and related operations. Current conditions litigation, a current jail population lawsuit, a DOJ investigation, or a current official death-in-custody report was not located in the reviewed Wexford County Jail sources.