Clark County Jail Overview
Clark County Jail is operated by the Clark County Sheriff's Office in Neillsville. The jail is the only detention facility identified in official sources as physically located in Clark County for the county jail population. It holds all genders and covers local custody needs for county pretrial detainees, people serving county jail sentences, approved Huber or electronic-monitoring participants, and people held on local warrants or holds.
The official Clark County Jail page describes a 126-bed county jail dedicated in April 2000. It uses a pod-based design and classifies inmates from minimum to maximum security risk. No separate Clark County jail annex, regional detention center, state prison, federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention center was located in official Clark County sources. Sentenced Wisconsin prison inmates from Clark County move into the Wisconsin Department of Corrections system and are searched through the DOC locator, not through the county jail.
The official Clark County Jail page is the best visual source for the current facility and its local contact block.
The screenshot should be read as a source reference for the current jail page, not as an online roster or booking-search screen.
Clark County Jail Capacity and Population
The current official capacity figure located for Clark County Jail is 126 beds. The same official jail page identifies the facility as dedicated in April 2000 and describes its pod-based design and classification range. Research also located a Prison Policy Initiative correctional-populations snapshot showing 53 local prisoners at Clark County Jail on December 31, 2013. That historical count is not a current head count.
The latest official county-specific activity number in the research is 708 adult jail admissions for Clark County in the Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities 2025 Annual Report. The report explains that ODF collects county jail data such as capacity, head count, percentage of capacity, Huber counts, people housed for or in other facilities, gender, electronic monitoring, deaths in custody, and people awaiting prison transfer. The publicly captured report did not provide a current Clark County average daily population table, so the current ADP should be treated as not located in official public sources.
How to Look Up an Inmate at Clark County Jail
No official Clark County online current-inmate roster, booking-search portal, mugshot gallery, or recent-bookings feed was located on the county website. The sheriff navigation points to county jail information, records services, case search, the Wisconsin DOC locator, and WI VINE, but the DOC locator is not a county jail roster. For a recent Clark County arrest, start locally and use state systems only for the parts they actually cover.
- Call Clark County Jail control at (715) 743-5380 for current custody questions when the person may be in local jail custody.
- Use Wisconsin VINELink for custody-status information and notification when the person is in a participating county jail system.
- Request non-emergency sheriff records through the Clark County Sheriff's records process by email, fax, or mail when you need releasable jail or incident records.
- Search Wisconsin Circuit Court Access for filed charges, bond entries, hearings, and dispositions after a case reaches circuit court.
- Use the Wisconsin DOC Offender Locator only for people sentenced to incarceration, supervision, or both with DOC. It does not cover people sentenced only to county jail.
- Use the BOP locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator only when the custody question is federal or immigration-related, not for ordinary Clark County Jail custody.
Lookup limit: if a booking is very recent, the jail phone and VINELink are more useful than WCCA, because formal court records can lag behind the jail intake event.
Clark County Jail Address and Contact
The jail and Sheriff's Office share the courthouse/public-safety address used across official Clark County pages. Use the jail phone for current custody and facility questions, the jail email for corrections contact, and the records email for written records requests. The sheriff directory also identifies records, civil process, and other office numbers, but custody confirmation should begin with jail control.
Clark County Jail
517 Court Street, Room 308
Neillsville, WI 54456
(715) 743-5380
Fax: (715) 743-4009
Email: sheriffcorrections@co.clark.wi.us
Sheriff Records
Clark County Sheriff's Office, Attention: Records
517 Court Street, Room 308
Neillsville, WI 54456
(715) 743-5355
Email: records@co.clark.wi.us
Fax: 715-743-4350
Visiting Someone at Clark County Jail
No public Clark County Jail visitation page, visitor schedule, video-visit vendor, visitor property list, or attorney-visitation policy was located on the official county site. The verified local route is to call jail control before planning a visit, bringing personal items, sending medication, or arranging attorney access. Official research also did not locate visitor-parking rates, public transit details, or a jail-specific ADA entrance description, so visitors should route to the courthouse block and confirm entry instructions before traveling.
| Day | Hours | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Tuesday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Wednesday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Thursday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Friday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Saturday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
| Sunday | Not posted in official public sources | Call jail control |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Clark County Jail
The official research did not locate a Clark County Jail mail-rule page, commissary vendor, phone vendor, video provider, or general money-deposit vendor. Do not assume another Wisconsin county's vendor applies to Clark County. Call the jail before mailing items, attempting a deposit, setting up calls, or sending property. The Huber/electronic-monitoring packet does document separate program fees for approved participants, and those are the only deposit-like jail fee details located in the official research.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail rules | No official public mail page located; call (715) 743-5380 before sending items. |
| Phone / video | No official Clark County Jail phone or video vendor located. |
| Commissary | No official commissary vendor or schedule located. |
| Money deposits | No general public deposit vendor located; call jail control for current instructions. |
| Documented Program Fee | Amount / Payment Detail |
|---|---|
| Huber | $18 per day or $126 per week, paid one week in advance. |
| Electronic monitoring install | $25 install fee. |
| Electronic monitoring, Clark County inmates | $20 per day. |
| Electronic monitoring, out-of-county transfers | $25 per day. |
| Payment method | Weekly in advance, in person or by cashier's check to Clark County Huber Clerk at the jail address. |
Huber and Electronic Monitoring Rules
Clark County's most detailed public jail program material is the official Electronic Monitoring/Huber packet linked from the jail page. Huber and electronic monitoring require judgment authorization and jail approval. The packet says no sentence under 7 days is allowed electronic monitoring. If the judgment requires the first 48 hours to be served, the person must still have 5 days left to qualify.
The packet requires a completed application packet, employer information, valid driver information, vehicle and insurance details, scheduled appointments, and the judgment of conviction. Incomplete packets are automatically disqualified. Before starting the program, a participant must take and pass a drug screen and preliminary breath test. Prescription medication must be in the original labeled container, and narcotic or controlled medications require jail nurse approval before reporting.
Program movement is controlled. The packet allows work, school, counseling, court, probation, medical or dental appointments, and child-care-related travel only when approved and documented. Work is limited to no more than 6 days in a row, 12 hours in a day, and 60 hours in a week unless an EMP officer preapproves an exception. Participants must take the most direct route and generally receive no more than one hour of travel time to work.
Booking and Intake at Clark County Jail
Clark County did not publish a step-by-step public booking manual in the research set. A typical local arrest path is arrest by a Clark County law enforcement agency, transport to Clark County Jail, intake, identification, property inventory, search, booking photo or fingerprints when required, medical and mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, bond or hold review, and a first court appearance or release when legally permitted.
The Huber/EMP packet provides local intake-adjacent rules for people reporting to serve a sentence or start an approved custody alternative. It tells people to leave jewelry and valuables at home, states that the facility is tobacco-free, and warns that contraband will be disposed of. It also says limited personal hygiene items and work clothing may be controlled by storage rules, and laundry may be charged to the canteen account. Current inmates should not assume they can take laundry out of the jail.
Records Requests and Copy Fees
For non-emergency jail, incident, or accident records, use the sheriff records process. The Clark County records page instructs requesters to submit a written request by email, fax, or mail and include the name, accident or incident date, incident number when known, and the completed records request form. Booking photos and related law enforcement images should be requested this way if they are releasable; no official public mugshot gallery was located.
| Record Delivery | Fee / Payment |
|---|---|
| Email or fax delivery | No charge documented. |
| Mailed or in-person black-and-white copy | $0.25 per page. |
| Mailed or in-person color copy | $1.00 per page. |
| CD with audio, video, or photos | $10.00. |
| Payment | Cash or check only; checks payable to Clark County Sheriff's Office. |
About Clark County Jail
The current Clark County Jail should not be confused with the historic jail at 215 E 5th Street in Neillsville. City historic material identifies that older building as a 1897 jail with Richardsonian Romanesque features and a former sheriff's residence. The active detention facility for current county custody is the jail dedicated in April 2000 at the Court Street courthouse/public-safety address.
Jail staffing details are unusually specific in the official county research. Clark County Jail employs 12 full-time correction deputies, four full-time correction sergeants, and reserve deputies. Corrections staff must complete 200 hours of specialized training to become jail certified and 24 hours of yearly training to maintain certification. Corrections Captain Louise Hackel is the command-staff role most directly tied to jail operations in the sheriff administration material, and Sheriff Kerry L. Kirn is the current sheriff identified in official county sources.
Note: Confirm custody, visit rules, mailing instructions, and program reporting requirements with Clark County Jail before traveling or sending property.