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St. Croix County Jail Overview

St. Croix County Jail is the primary local detention facility for arrests and county custody in St. Croix County. It is operated by the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office, and the county's jail information begins at the official St. Croix County Jail page. That county page routes jail users to topics for contacting and visiting, inmate money, property, bond, and clergy. The jail is not a state prison. It is the county-level intake and custody point for people arrested by local agencies in Hudson, New Richmond, River Falls, and other St. Croix County communities when they are booked into county custody.

County jail custody usually covers the first stage after arrest. A person may be held before an initial court appearance, held while a cash or signature bond issue is pending, serving a short local sentence, or held on a warrant, detainer, probation hold, or agency hold. The St. Croix County Jail roster is useful because its public results can show cell block, held-for agency, arrest date, release date, mugshot status, and hold reasons. Those fields help distinguish jail custody from a court case. The court file and the prosecutor's filed charges are checked through Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, while sentenced state prisoners are searched through the Wisconsin DOC locator.

The county's screenshot source for the official jail page is the St. Croix County Jail page, which shows the county service links tied to the Hudson jail.

The jail page is the best starting point for local service rules because it points to the county's current visitation, mail, money, property, bond, and clergy topics.

St. Croix County Jail Population

Recent population and capacity figures for St. Croix County Jail come from Vera Institute's Incarceration Trends county dataset, not from a separate sheriff-published daily dashboard. Vera county rows show a 185-bed rated capacity for St. Croix County in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The same series lists total jail population at 86 in 2021, 99 in 2022, 110.5 in 2023, 113.5 in 2024, and 107 in 2025. Those figures should be read as county data from the Vera dataset, not as a current live headcount at the jail door.

The useful local point is that the St. Croix County Jail population series stayed below the 185-bed Vera capacity figure in the recent rows. The 2024 row also gives more detail: 98.25 male jail population, 15 female jail population, and a jail population rate of 181.75 per 100,000 residents age 15 to 64. Race and pretrial/sentenced breakdown fields were blank in the recent 2021 through 2025 rows reviewed for St. Croix County, so those categories should not be guessed.

Lookup at St. Croix County Jail

The correct lookup tool for St. Croix County Jail is the St. Croix County Sheriff Zuercher inmate roster. That public portal is the county-jail roster, not a DOC prison database and not an outside reposting service. It is the right first stop for current county custody and, when the portal configuration supports it, release-date style searching. If timing matters, call the jail because online roster visibility can lag behind a physical booking, release, or transfer.

1. Open the St. Croix County Sheriff Zuercher inmate route and start with the name field.
2. Use fewer filters first if spelling is uncertain, then add race, sex, cell block, arrest date, held-for agency, in-custody date, or release date as needed.
3. Read the row across for mugshot status, name, race, sex, age or date of birth, cell block, arrest date, held-for agency, and release date.
4. Check the second row under the person for hold reasons, then verify urgent release or transfer questions with the jail.

The Zuercher public inmate roster screenshot shows the search filters and results layout used for St. Croix County Jail inmate lookup.

The roster fields matter because St. Croix County records can show the held-for agency and hold reasons, which are often more useful than a name-only inmate list.

St. Croix County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone for custody verification, visit questions, and facility-specific instructions that may change faster than a static county page. The county research identifies the jail as open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and lists the sheriff and jail campus at the Carmichael Road government center in Hudson. A separate booking desk number was not located, so the main jail number is the supported public contact for general jail information.

For records that are not visible in the roster, use the county public-records process described by St. Croix County public records. Wisconsin public-records law supports access to many jail and booking records, but release can still be limited by exemptions, juvenile confidentiality, investigative needs, sealed records, or the custodian's balancing analysis.

St. Croix County Jail Visits

St. Croix County Jail visitation is built around video visits. The county's contacting and visiting page identifies HomeWAV for remote video visitation and phone services. Visitors must register online, choose the jail and inmate, complete audio/video and internet-speed tests, and buy minutes before a remote visit. The county states that remote HomeWAV visits run daily from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., with the last visit beginning at 9 p.m., and that internet video visits cost $0.25 per minute.

Visits can be ended if a visitor or inmate becomes disruptive, disorderly, or unruly. The research did not locate a county-published visitor parking diagram, public transit route, or ADA entrance guide. Bring government photo identification, confirm current check-in procedures before traveling, and treat the county visiting page as the controlling source for visit rules.

Mail and Money at St. Croix County Jail

Mail, phone, commissary, and bond payments use county jail rules, not Wisconsin DOC prison rules. The county's mail guidance says inmate mail should be addressed to the inmate name at St. Croix County Jail, 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, WI 54016, and that mail must include the sender's full return address. Mail with perfume, lipstick, or similar substances on the exterior will not be delivered and may be put with inmate property or returned. Polaroid pictures, personal checks, property, stamps, envelopes, and contraband should not be sent through the mail.

The county's accounts and fees page identifies JAILATM for online deposits. It also says deposits can be made by cash or credit card at the jail lobby kiosk and by certified funds through U.S. Mail, such as cashier's checks or money orders. Personal checks are not accepted. Canteen is offered once per week for inmates with a positive balance, and funds must be in the account by 11 a.m. Tuesday for Wednesday delivery.

The St. Croix County accounts and fees page is the source for the jail account and fee rules tied to JAILATM deposits.

Deposit and canteen timing can affect whether an inmate has funds available for weekly commissary, so the county account page should be checked before sending money.

St. Croix County Jail Booking

The county pages do not publish a full intake manual, so the public description should stay tied to the roster fields and county service pages. A typical St. Croix County Jail booking can involve transport to the jail, identity checks, property inventory, booking photo or fingerprints when required, medical and safety screening, classification, housing assignment, and entry into the jail records system. The public side of that process appears in roster fields such as arrest date, cell block, held-for agency, mugshot status, release date, and hold reasons.

Held for agency

The agency responsible for the warrant, hold, case, or custody request.

Cell block

A public housing label when the jail exposes it in the roster.

Detainer

A hold request from another agency that may delay release or transfer.

Signature bond

A Wisconsin release condition based on a signed promise to appear and follow court rules.

A jail roster entry is not the final court record. Formal charges are filed through the prosecutor and circuit court, and a person may be held for reasons that do not match the later court complaint. Use WCCA for filed court charges, the jail for custody verification, and the county records process for releasable booking documents not posted online.

St. Croix County Jail Programs

The county's in-custody programs page lists jail-based services for people in custody, including A.A. and N.A. meetings, AODA, adult basic education GED or HSED, anger management, chaplaincy, church services, inmate counseling, family dynamics, job-seeking skills, money management, and "What's your plan." The county says core classes can be voluntary or court or probation ordered. AODA has operated since March 2006 and can be a 16-session or 32-session program depending on treatment needs.

Huber and work-release information is handled on a separate county Huber page. The research identifies a required orientation with a Huber Deputy before check-in, a Huber Information Packet picked up at the jail main entrance, a GPS monitoring bracelet, and testing requirements at check-in. Huber participants use county jail rules, fees, and supervision, while St. Croix Correctional Center prisoners use Wisconsin DOC rules. Keeping that county jail versus state prison distinction clear prevents searches from going to the wrong custody system.