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Forest County Jail Overview

Forest County Jail is operated by the Forest County Sheriff's Office at the sheriff complex in Crandon. The sheriff's jail page calls it the Forest County Sheriff Jail/Corrections Division and states that the jail maintains an 80-bed facility completed in 1997. It is a county jail, not a state prison, BOP institution, or ICE detention facility. That means it mainly serves local arrest intake, pretrial detention, short local sentences, warrants, holds, and contract housing.

The most important local detail is contract housing. The sheriff's jail page says the facility houses Forest County inmates and Oconto County inmates. A person can be physically held at Forest County Jail while the criminal case, warrant, bond issue, or release decision belongs to another county. When the jail list does not match the expected Forest County court case, the next check may be WCCA/CCAP under another county, the issuing agency, or the jail information line.

Forest County Jail Capacity and Population

The Forest County Jail page gives the local building description: an 80-bed jail completed in 1997. Vera Incarceration Trends reports a county rated capacity of 85 for 2020 through 2025 and a 2025 jail population of 41. Both should be kept source-specific. The sheriff source describes the facility as presented by the local operator, while Vera supplies county-level time-series figures used for population and capacity comparison.

Who Is Held at Forest County Jail

Forest County Jail holds people in local sheriff custody. That includes people arrested by Forest County deputies, Crandon police, other local agencies, state officers, or warrant authorities when the jail is the receiving local facility. It can also include locally sentenced inmates and inmates from Oconto County. The facility is not the correct long-term lookup for a person sentenced to Wisconsin state prison unless that person is temporarily held locally before transfer.

Common custody labels can be easy to confuse. A pretrial detainee is held before case resolution. A sentenced jail inmate is serving a local jail sentence. A detainer means another agency, county, state, federal authority, immigration agency, or supervision officer has a hold. A transfer means the person moved to another county, DOC, BOP, ICE, or another holding agency. Each status changes where the next record search should happen.

How to Check Forest County Jail Custody

The official local custody channel is the Forest County Sheriff's inmate-list link reached from the sheriff site and county-government sheriff page. Static capture did not expose search fields, profile fields, booking photos, or detailed entries inside the SharePoint link. Treat it as an official list path rather than a confirmed searchable roster portal. If the list does not load or does not answer the custody question, call the jail and check VINE.

1. Open the inmate-list link from the Forest County Sheriff's Office or the county sheriff page.
2. Review the official list without assuming a name-search box, booking-number field, or mugshot gallery.
3. Call Forest County Jail at 715-478-3331 if the booking is recent, the result is unclear, or an Oconto County hold may be involved.
4. Use Wisconsin VINE or 888-868-4631 for custody-status and notification support.
5. Search WCCA/CCAP for filed charges, or use DOC, BOP, or ICE locators if custody has moved outside the county jail.

Forest County Jail Address and Contact

Forest County Jail and the Sheriff's Office share the same main public address and phone line. The sheriff contact materials list the main phone, sheriff fax, jail fax, jail email, and records-request return email. Jail Administrator Amanda Herman is named on the sheriff's jail page, and the county sheriff page names Sheriff Jeffery Marvin as department head.

Forest County Jail Video Visitation

Forest County Jail visitation is by appointment only. The sheriff's visitation page says all visits are video visits, either online or onsite from the Sheriff's Office lobby. Appointments are made online through CIDNET, and the page specifically says not to call the jail to schedule a visit. Onsite video visits have no fee, but visitors need current photo identification and must schedule at least 24 hours ahead.

The visitation page is available from the sheriff's video visitation page.

The screenshot supports the key local rule: Forest County uses scheduled video visitation, not an open walk-in visiting schedule published by day of week.

Money and Property at Forest County Jail

The sheriff's jail page does not publish a full mail handbook, commissary schedule, phone-rate table, or complete vendor fee chart. It does publish several practical rules. A kiosk in the Sheriff's Department lobby accepts cash and credit card deposits for inmate accounts. The jail no longer accepts clothing for inmates. The front window accepts only contacts and solution, glasses, and medication. Messages are delivered only for a family emergency.

Forest County Jail Sentenced-Inmate Fees

Forest County publishes several fees for sentenced inmates. These are not the same as open-records fees or bond amounts. The Huber fee points to Wisconsin work-release context for some sentenced local inmates, but the research did not locate a full Huber handbook or schedule for this jail. Confirm current billing and eligibility with the jail before relying on a fee entry.

Booking and Intake at Forest County Jail

Forest County does not publish a full booking handbook in the located pages, so intake should be described with confirmed local facts and state jail standards. A person arrested by a local or state officer may be transported to Forest County Jail if local detention is required. Jail staff confirm identity, record the arrest or hold basis, handle property, and place the person under security and classification rules. Wisconsin jail standards under DOC 350 supply the state context for health care, classification, housing, and well-being checks.

The sheriff's records materials show that incident reports, photos, body-camera material, accident reports, and printed reports are separate request categories. The records form also warns that pending investigations may not be released without a court order or District Attorney permission, and that all records can be redacted before release.

Forest County Jail Records and Photos

When an inmate detail, booking record, report, or photo is not available from the public list, the sheriff's open-records form is the official fallback. Requesters should give the date of incident or booking if known, the location and type of incident, the information sought, and the involved person. The form offers pickup, postal mail, or email as delivery choices. Mental-health commitment records are not released through the sheriff form, which points those questions to Register in Probate.

About Forest County Jail

Forest County Jail has a compact rural jail profile tied closely to the sheriff, dispatch, and county court workflow in Crandon. The staff page says corrections staff are responsible for inmate safety and security along with dispatch duties. The broader Sheriff's Office operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and dispatch processes E-911 and routine calls for local public-safety agencies.

The jail's public-facing details are unusually specific in some places and thin in others. Capacity, building year, Oconto County housing, video visitation, lobby kiosk deposits, property limits, and sentenced-inmate fees are documented. A detailed mail handbook, commissary fee schedule, public mugshot gallery, daily booking report, or app-only inmate roster was not located. Wisconsin VINE is the mobile and notification tool supported by the research, not a Forest County sheriff app.