Jail and Huber Lookup

Sauk County Jail and Huber Center Overview

Sauk County Jail and Huber Center is operated by the Sauk County Sheriff's Office as a county jail, Huber/work-release center, and electronic-monitoring hub. It is the local detention point for people arrested in Sauk County by sheriff's deputies, municipal police agencies, state officers, or other authorized agencies unless the person is cited and released or held elsewhere under another jurisdiction's authority. The facility can hold pretrial detainees, locally sentenced jail inmates, Huber participants, people connected to electronic monitoring, and boarders from other jurisdictions when the county reports them.

The official Sauk County Jail/Huber Division page describes the facility as part of the Sauk County Law Enforcement Center, which opened May 12, 2003. The same source reports a 145,000-square-foot Law Enforcement Center combining sheriff administrative offices with a 463-bed Jail and Huber Center. Sauk County does not publish pod names, housing units, or security-level breakdowns in the reviewed public pages, so public lookup should not depend on a housing-unit field.

The county's official Jail/Huber page is shown in this facility-specific screenshot from the image manifest.

The screenshot matches the facility page used for the address, phone, capacity, and Law Enforcement Center details summarized here.

Sauk County Jail and Huber Center Capacity and Population

The strongest sourced capacity number is the 463-bed figure on the official Jail/Huber Division page. Sauk County's daily inmate-count reports are different from a roster: they show aggregate population measures submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Office of Detention Facilities, not names, booking numbers, or mugshots. The May 2026 report listed an average daily head count of 131.77, average boarders of 34.42, average male count of 114.19, average female count of 17.58, average inmates in other jails of 3.65, and average EMP/home-monitoring count of 34.23.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Sauk County Jail and Huber Center

No official public current-inmate roster, public booking report, or mugshot roster was found for Sauk County. Start with the jail phone line for present county custody, then use WI VINE for custody notifications, WCCA/CCAP for filed Sauk County court charges, and the sheriff records-request process for booking records or jail files. Use the Wisconsin DOC locator only for sentenced state prison or supervision records. Use BOP for federal inmates and ICE for immigration detention; those systems do not replace county jail confirmation.

1. Decide whether the person is probably in county jail, Huber/work release, Wisconsin DOC custody, federal custody, or immigration detention.
2. For current Sauk County jail custody, call the jail with the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency, and any case number.
3. Use WI VINE if the goal is custody-status notification instead of a full booking record.
4. Search WCCA/CCAP after charges are filed to review court case status, hearings, bond conditions, and dispositions.
5. Submit a sheriff open-records request or use the Sauk County NextRequest portal when a booking record, incident report, admission/release date, or booking photo is needed.
6. Search Wisconsin DOC, BOP, or ICE only when the custody stage points outside the Sauk County jail.

Sauk County Jail and Huber Center Address and Contact

Use the jail number for general county-jail custody questions and the Huber number for Huber/work-release or electronic-monitoring routing. The sheriff site lists normal business hours for the Jail, Huber, and Law Enforcement Center public counter as 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The research did not locate a separate public intake-hour schedule, so urgent after-hours routing should go through non-emergency dispatch unless it is an emergency.

Visiting Someone at Sauk County Jail and Huber Center

Friends and family visitation is video-based through GTL/GettingOut. Sauk County says visitors must create an account and that video visits may be monitored and recorded. The official jail visitation and phone information page lists on-site video blocks and remote daily blocks, while the visitation PDF also lists public visitation registration cutoff times. Because the HTML and PDF conflict on some details, including visitor limits, verify the current rules with the jail before traveling. Bring acceptable photo identification, follow the dress code, and do not bring phones, cameras, recording devices, food, beverages, or unauthorized items into the visitation room.

The visitation PDF gives a useful accessibility note: hearing-impaired visitors may ask for visitor booth 8 or 16 at the visitation counter. Juveniles must be supervised by an adult, including in the lobby and parking lot. People on room confinement, disciplinary segregation, volunteer programs, or job searches may not receive visits during that status under the published rules.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Sauk County Jail and Huber Center

The current HTML mail instructions route personal mail through TextBehind at a Phoenix, Maryland P.O. Box. Use the physical jail address for facility visits and official business, but use the current scanned-mail address for ordinary letters unless the jail tells you otherwise. Sauk County's jail commissary and telephone information page names JailATM and ConnectNetwork/GTL for common account services. Include the facility name and state, the inmate's full name and inmate number, and the sender's full name and physical address. Do not send checks, money orders, attorney-client privileged mail, stickers, perfumed letters, stamped envelopes, greeting cards, cardstock, or prohibited photos to the scanned personal-mail address.

Books must be paperback and shipped directly from a publisher or online clearinghouse. Magazines and newspapers must come directly from the publisher or subscription source. The FAQ allows pictures if they are not Polaroids and do not depict nudity, sexual content, gang material, illegal activity, or other prohibited material.

Booking and Intake at Sauk County Jail and Huber Center

Sauk County does not publish a step-by-step booking script, but the researched sources support the local pathway. A person arrested in Sauk County is generally taken to the Jail and Huber Center unless released by citation or held under another agency's authority. Jail staff verify identity, create or update a jail record, control property, conduct booking-photo and fingerprint processing when applicable, and route the person through medical, mental-health, classification, housing, and court-appearance steps. Wisconsin law requires an arrested person to be taken before a judge within a reasonable time, and Wis. Stat. 302.372 requires a prisoner classification system for housing assignments.

Do not expect a new booking to appear on a Sauk County roster page, because no official roster refresh schedule was found. For a fresh arrest, the practical chain is jail phone confirmation, WCCA/CCAP once a case is filed, WI VINE for custody notification, and a records request for the booking or incident record. Bond information should be confirmed with the jail or court before a JailATM payment is attempted, because other holds can prevent release even after a Sauk County bond is paid.

About Sauk County Jail and Huber Center

The facility's public materials emphasize jail services, Huber/work-release functions, daily count reporting, programming, and PREA reporting. Published programs include community service at about 16 local non-profit or governmental sites, Inmate Sentence Reduction Program work details, educational classes, nursing-student classes, and electronic monitoring. The electronic monitoring program is described as a GPS bracelet home-service option for some qualified low-risk people ordered to serve a jail sentence, with rules, home visits, and occasional drug or alcohol testing.

Sauk County's PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct involving inmates or staff. Reports can be made verbally or in writing. Outside PREA reporting is available through the SCSO PREA hotline at 608-355-3474, and inside reporting uses the facility phone language selection followed by *9. The DHS outside-source hotline is 608-355-4203, with inside reporting through language selection followed by *8. The same research lists jail safety contact 608-355-3492 and Huber safety contact 608-355-3264.