Douglas County Inmate Population Overview
The Douglas County inmate population is split across several custody channels. The local hub is the Douglas County Sheriff WI Detention Center inmate roster, which separates Current Inmates from a 48 Hour Release view. The sheriff roster captured in July 2026 showed 129 current inmates, while nearby search snippets showed 130. That count is a live roster count, not an annual average, so it should be treated as a point-in-time snapshot. It covers people at the Douglas County Jail in Superior, including local pretrial detainees, county-sentence inmates, warrant holds, probation or parole holds, people housed for another agency, and ICE detainees when assigned to the same jail building.
Other parts of the Douglas County inmate population are outside the county roster. Gordon Correctional Center is a Wisconsin Department of Corrections facility in Douglas County, but it holds sentenced adult male persons in DOC care and is searched through the statewide DOC locator. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through the Bureau of Prisons locator, and immigration custody is searched through ICE's Online Detainee Locator System. A person can move from one channel to another after court, sentencing, transfer, or release, which is why roster results, court records, and agency locators should be checked together.
The Douglas County current inmate roster screenshot shows the public roster count, search controls, booking cards, mugshots, booking numbers, charges, and bond fields used for local custody lookup.
The roster is useful for immediate custody checks, but its own profile warning says charges and bail can change after court appearances.
Douglas County Inmate Population Statistics
Douglas County does not publish every jail-population metric that readers often expect. The county and sheriff pages located during research did not publish a current official average daily population, rated bed capacity, average length of stay, or demographic dashboard for the jail. The strongest local figures are the live sheriff roster count and the annual Douglas County jail admissions reported in the Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities 2025 Annual Report. For the state prison side, the DOC publishes Gordon Correctional Center's operating capacity as 89 adult male inmates.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas County Jail current roster count | 129, with nearby snippets showing 130 | Sheriff current roster, captured July 2026 |
| Douglas County Jail admissions | 1,915 | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2025 |
| Douglas County Jail rated capacity | Not published in located official county, sheriff, DOC, or ICE sources | Research gap preserved |
| Gordon Correctional Center capacity | 89 adult male inmates | Wisconsin DOC Gordon page |
| Wisconsin county-jail ADP | 11,718 | Wisconsin DOC ODF Annual Report, 2025 |
| Douglas County population | 44,264 | Sheriff homepage county description, 2023 |
Douglas County Inmate Population Trends
The most complete multi-year Douglas County series in the research is jail admissions, not average daily population. Admissions are not the same as a daily head count. They show how many bookings moved through the jail in a year, while the roster count shows who was in custody at one moment. Douglas County admissions fell sharply in the pandemic years, then rose again. The 2025 ODF report placed Douglas County at 1,915 admissions, a 48.0 percent increase from 2024. Statewide, the same report says Wisconsin county jail ADP fell from 13,434 in 2018 to 9,612 in 2020, then rose 22 percent from 2020 to 11,718 in 2025.
| Year | Douglas County Jail Admissions | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,547 | Pre-pandemic baseline from ODF. |
| 2019 | 2,670 | Highest admissions figure in the captured eight-year row. |
| 2020 | 1,435 | Sharp pandemic-era drop. |
| 2021 | 1,377 | Lowest admissions figure in the captured row. |
| 2022 | 1,780 | Rebound begins. |
| 2023 | 1,938 | Continued increase before the next-year drop. |
| 2024 | 1,294 | Low point before the 2025 rebound. |
| 2025 | 1,915 | ODF reported a 48.0 percent increase from 2024. |
These numbers help explain the Douglas County inmate population without overclaiming. The county roster count can rise or fall each day based on arrests, court release orders, warrants, probation holds, outside-agency holds, and transfers to DOC or ICE custody. Admissions show workload through the jail. ADP and capacity would show crowding more directly, but those Douglas-specific figures were not published in the official text captured for this build.
Douglas County Inmate Population Makeup
The public Douglas County roster displays age, gender, race, arresting agency, booking date, charges, and bond on profile pages, but it does not publish a downloadable demographic table. Sample profiles showed adult male entries and race as a single-letter code. The research also found entries from agencies beyond Douglas County, including a St. Louis County example marked as housed for another agency. That border-county detail matters because Superior and Duluth sit in the Twin Ports area, and not every person in the jail was necessarily arrested by a Douglas County agency.
- Local jail custody includes people awaiting court, serving county sentences, held on warrants, or held for other agencies.
- State prison custody includes sentenced Wisconsin DOC residents, such as eligible adult male residents at Gordon Correctional Center.
- Immigration custody can use the same Douglas County Jail building, but ICE search and case systems are separate.
- Federal custody is not searched through the county roster unless a federal or Marshals hold is reflected in local custody notes.
Douglas County Jail Capacity
Official county or sheriff sources located for Douglas County Jail did not publish a current rated-bed capacity. The Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities says it collects monthly county capacity, head count, percent of capacity, Huber data, housed-for-other counts, gender, and electronic-monitoring data, but the public annual-report text captured for this project did not expose a Douglas-specific capacity row. That means no local overcrowding percentage should be stated from the available record. The responsible reading is narrower: the live jail roster count was about 129 to 130 during July 2026 capture, and the annual admissions trend is available from ODF.
Capacity note: Gordon Correctional Center has a DOC-published operating capacity of 89 adult male inmates. Douglas County Jail capacity was not published in the located official sources.
Laws for Douglas County Jail Data
Wisconsin law does not put every jail detail online, but it does set the public-records and jail-oversight framework that applies to Douglas County inmate population information. The sheriff's records notice cites Wisconsin public-records law and names a legal custodian for inspection and copying. The DOC Office of Detention Facilities regulates local detention facilities and collects jail data. Active investigations, privacy statutes, court decisions, HIPAA, DPPA, and other legal limits can still lead to redaction or withholding.
Key Statutes:
Wis. Stat. 19.31 states Wisconsin's public-records policy and presumption of access, subject to legal limits.
Wis. Stat. 19.35 gives requesters the right to inspect or copy records unless an exception applies.
Wis. Stat. 59.27 sets sheriff duties relevant to jail custody and recordkeeping.
Wis. Stat. 301.37 gives DOC authority over detention-facility standards and inspections.
Wis. Stat. 302.37 addresses jail maintenance and care of prisoners.
Douglas County State Prison Population
Gordon Correctional Center is the state prison facility physically located in Douglas County, and it should not be confused with the Douglas County Jail. Gordon is part of the Wisconsin Correctional Center System and holds sentenced adult male persons in DOC care. The DOC Gordon Correctional Center page lists the facility at 10401 E. County Road G in Gordon, names its superintendent, and publishes a capacity of 89. Sentenced people are searched through the Wisconsin DOC Locator, while new arrests and short local holds begin with the county jail roster.
The difference is practical. Someone arrested in Superior may appear first on the sheriff roster, move through bond and court, and later leave the Douglas County inmate population counted at the jail if sentenced to DOC. DOC classification then decides placement. Gordon is one possible Wisconsin correctional-center placement for eligible adult males, but it is not the intake point for all Douglas County sentences.
Search Douglas County Inmate Population
The fastest local search path is the sheriff roster. Start at the roster disclaimer, choose Current Inmates for a person who may still be in the Douglas County Jail, and choose 48 Hour Release when the person may have been released within the last two days. The roster is free and requires no login in the browser capture. It has a Search By Name box, date and name sorting, current and released views, pagination, and profile links. Last-name searching is the safest starting point because middle initials and spelling variations can change how full names appear.
Use the roster for the local jail slice of the Douglas County inmate population. Use WCCA for court case filings after an arrest, DOC Locator for sentenced prison custody, BOP for federal sentenced prisoners, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody. VINELink is also linked from Douglas County profile pages for custody notification.
- Open the sheriff roster gateway and read the disclaimer.
- Select Current Inmates for active custody or 48 Hour Release for recent releases.
- Search by last name, then use date sorting for the newest bookings.
- Open the profile to review mugshot, booking number, age, arresting agency, booking date, charges, bond, and VINELink.
- Call Douglas County Jail if correct bail, charges, case numbers, or custody status matter.
- If the person is not listed locally, check Wisconsin DOC, BOP, ICE ODLS, WCCA, and the sheriff records request path.
Douglas County Roster Search Fields
The Douglas County inmate search controls are simple but useful. The roster does not publish a required name format, wildcard rule, or refresh interval. It does provide Current and Released tabs, sorting by name or date, newest-to-oldest and oldest-to-newest views, Search and Show All buttons, and pagination. The current roster captured in July 2026 had multiple pages, so pagination matters for common names and full-list browsing.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search By Name | Text | Not specified | Use last name first when the full name does not match. |
| Name | Tab or link | Optional | Changes roster display or sorting by name. |
| Date | Tab or link | Optional | Changes display by booking or release date. |
| Current | Tab or link | Optional | Shows people currently at the detention center. |
| Released | Tab or link | Optional | Shows people released within the last 48 hours. |
| Sort Newest to Oldest | Link/button | Optional | Useful for fresh bookings or releases. |
| Show All | Button/link | Optional | Clears the search and returns the full list. |
Douglas County Released Inmate Records
The sheriff roster gives a specific short-term release channel. The disclaimer says Current Inmates shows people currently at the Douglas County Sheriff WI Detention Center, while 48 Hour Release shows people released from the detention center within the prior 48 hours. Older booking information is not presented as a public archive in the sources captured. For older jail records, incident reports, booking photos, recordings, or statistics, use the sheriff records request process. Requests can be made by phone, email, in person, or mail, and must reasonably describe the record by name, date, time, location, case number, or booking number when available.
The 48 Hour Release roster screenshot shows how recently released Douglas County inmates are listed separately from current jail custody.
This release view helps bridge the gap between a live jail roster and a formal records request for older booking records.
Douglas County Inmate Record Fields
A Douglas County jail profile is more detailed than a name-only list but less complete than a full court file. Result cards show a mugshot when available, name, booking number, age, booking date, charges, bond, and a profile link. Full profiles add gender, race, arresting agency, larger photo, and a VINELink button. They do not show height, weight, exact date of birth, housing unit, court date, judge, warrant number, statute number, or projected release date in the inspected samples.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Public full name, with profile pages often showing first, middle, and last name. |
| Mugshot | Booking photo on roster cards and profiles when available. |
| Booking Number | Local jail booking identifier, such as a five-digit booking number in samples. |
| Arresting Agency | Agency that arrested or lodged the person, including local or outside agencies. |
| Charges | Plain-language charge labels or hold descriptions, not the full court complaint. |
| Bond | A single bond field, such as NO BOND or a dollar amount, subject to court changes. |
| VINELink | Custody-notification link from the public profile. |
Douglas County Jail vs Prison
County jail and state prison searches answer different questions. The Douglas County Jail roster is the correct first stop for a new local arrest, a short county sentence, a warrant hold, or a person housed for another agency at the local jail. The Wisconsin DOC Locator is the correct tool after a person has been sentenced to state prison or is under DOC supervision. Gordon Correctional Center is physically in Douglas County, but its residents are part of the state prison system, not the local jail roster.
| Question | Douglas County Jail | Wisconsin DOC |
|---|---|---|
| Who is held | Pretrial detainees, county sentences, warrants, holds, and some outside-agency detainees. | Sentenced prison residents and DOC supervision clients. |
| Run by | Douglas County Sheriff's Office. | Wisconsin Department of Corrections. |
| Search tool | Sheriff current roster and 48 Hour Release. | Wisconsin DOC Locator. |
| Key identifiers | Name, booking number, booking date, charges, bond. | Name, DOC number, status, facility, sentence or supervision details when public. |
Douglas County State Federal ICE Search
When the Douglas County inmate population search does not find the person locally, the next locator depends on custody type. The Wisconsin DOC Locator covers sentenced prison custody and supervision. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System searches current ICE custody and CBP custody over 48 hours by A-number and country of birth or by name, country of birth, and birth date. Federal pretrial detainees under U.S. Marshals custody may not appear as sentenced BOP inmates.
- Hold
- A separate legal or agency reason that can keep a person in custody even if one local bond appears payable.
- Detainer
- A notice or request from another agency, often DOC, ICE, or another county, tied to custody or transfer.
- PIOC
- Wisconsin DOC term for a person in its care, used in state prison records.
- WCCA
- Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, the court case-search system used for public circuit-court docket summaries.
Douglas County Detention Facilities
Douglas County has one primary local jail, one state DOC correctional center physically located in the county, and one ICE detention-facility layer tied to the county jail building. These pages must be read by custody type. A current county-jail search will not replace a DOC search for Gordon, and an ICE detainee search should not be treated as a regular county criminal case search.
- Douglas County Jail holds local pretrial detainees, county-sentence inmates, warrants, holds, people housed for other agencies, and ICE detainees when assigned there.
- Gordon Correctional Center is a Wisconsin DOC correctional center for sentenced adult male persons in DOC care, with a DOC-published capacity of 89.
- Douglas County Jail ICE Detention Facility uses the Douglas County Jail location for adult immigration detainees assigned by ICE, with lookup through ICE ODLS and facility confirmation by phone.
Douglas County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Douglas County inmate population?
The local jail roster showed 129 current inmates during July 2026 capture, while nearby snippets showed 130. That is a live jail count, not an official average daily population. Douglas County Jail also had 1,915 admissions in 2025 according to the Wisconsin DOC ODF annual report.
Where should a Douglas County inmate search start?
Start with the sheriff Current Inmates roster for active local jail custody. Use 48 Hour Release for recent releases, Wisconsin DOC Locator for sentenced prison custody, BOP for federal sentenced custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention.
Does the roster show booking photos?
Yes. Douglas County roster cards and profiles show booking photos when available, and the 48-hour release view may show images for recently released people. Older photos should be requested through sheriff records.
Who confirms bond or charges?
The roster profile warning says charges and bail may change after court appearances. Call Douglas County Jail at (715) 395-1375 for correct bail, charges, and case numbers before posting bail or relying on the public profile.
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