Eau Claire County Jail Inmate Lookup

Eau Claire County Jail Overview

Eau Claire County Jail is at 710 Second Ave. in Eau Claire and is operated by the Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Dave Riewestahl leads the office. The 2025 Sheriff's Office Annual Report identifies the jail-side Security Services Division leadership as Captain/Jail Administrator Chad Dachel and Lieutenant/Assistant Jail Administrator Chad Strasburg. The jail is the public-facing adult detention facility for people arrested by the sheriff, Eau Claire Police, Altoona Police, UW-Eau Claire Police, state officers, and other agencies when those arrests are lodged in the county jail.

The jail handles adult secure detention, court-related custody, Huber/work-release administration, and electronic monitoring. It holds people arrested on new charges, pretrial detainees awaiting adjudication, sentenced jail inmates, and people held on probation or parole violations. Huber participants are sentenced for less than one year and must have judge authorization. Electronic monitoring lets eligible people serve under home monitoring rather than in the Huber Center.

The Sheriff's contact page lists the jail, Huber, Central Control, and sheriff office contact routes.

Those contacts matter because the roster is a weekday-updated report and because Huber, Central Control, and records requests are separate practical channels.

Eau Claire County Jail Capacity and Population

A rated secure capacity number was not found in the official public sources reviewed. The best official operating figures come from the Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report. It reported 3,258 bookings, 2,074 unique individuals, 67,890 secure jail bed days, an average in-house secure inmate count of 186, an average secure daily population of 220, and an average total jail population of 230.

The 2025 length-of-stay table shows a mix of fast-turnover and longer custody: 34% stayed 0 to 24 hours, 13% stayed 1 to 2 days, 29% stayed 2 to 10 days, 5% stayed 10 to 20 days, and 20% stayed more than 20 days. Unique individuals were 74% male and 26% female; 68% were Eau Claire County residents, and 12% were listed as unhoused.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Eau Claire County Jail

Use the official Eau Claire County Inmate Listing for current adult jail custody. It is a current listing/report, not a real-time searchable database, and it does not cover sentenced state prisoners after transfer to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, federal inmates in BOP custody, or immigration detainees in ICE custody.

1. Open the official Eau Claire County Sheriff's Office Inmate Listing.
2. Scan the current listing for the person's name and any estimated release date shown.
3. If the booking is recent, after the weekday update, on a weekend, or uncertain by spelling, call the jail and Central Control at 715-839-4707.
4. For booking records, incident records, historical custody information, or records not on the listing, contact Sheriff's Records at ECSO.Records@eauclairecounty.gov or 715-839-4701.

Eau Claire County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail address for jail visits, Huber reporting, money kiosk issues, jail mail or legal mail, and Central Control questions. Sheriff administration is nearby at the Government Center, but it is not the public jail entrance.

Visiting Someone at Eau Claire County Jail

Visitation is non-contact video visitation at the Eau Claire County Jail. Visits are by appointment only and must be scheduled 24 hours in advance through the jail's linked JailATM/IC Solutions process. The official visitation page says all visits are monitored, visitors need valid government-issued photo ID, and visitors should arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled visit. Inmates are allowed three 20-minute visits per week, and each inmate may have up to four visitors at one time with two adults per visit.

The official visitation page gives the current appointment schedule and visitor rules.

Confirm before traveling because the county notes technical issues may prevent staff from notifying people when visitation is canceled.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Eau Claire County Jail

Normal inmate mail is routed through a Jonesboro, Arkansas mail-processing address, while legal mail and packages use the jail's physical address. The jail does not accept Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target, or other third-party retail packages for inmates. Money may be deposited at the jail lobby kiosk, through InmateCanteen, or by money order or payroll check under the jail's published limits.

The official mail and money page lists the address formats, kiosk route, and deposit limits.

The exact address format is important because ordinary mail and legal mail do not go to the same place.

Booking and Intake at Eau Claire County Jail

After an adult arrest that results in jail lodging, the person is taken to the Eau Claire County Jail for reception, identification, booking record creation, property handling, photo and fingerprint work, screening, and classification. The public pages do not publish a full booking manual or housing-unit list. The 2025 annual report does describe a booking remodel that added 13 individual cells and one safety cell, funded through a $3 million 2025 budget item.

The same annual report says the jail's Medication Assisted Treatment work includes screening and assessing new bookings for opioid use disorder and overdose risk factors. Formal court charges are tracked through the prosecutor and court system, not the jail roster. For court filings and bond conditions, use Wisconsin Circuit Court Access and the Clerk of Circuit Court rather than treating the roster as the final charge record.

About Eau Claire County Jail

The Sheriff's Office describes the jail mission as providing a safe and secure environment for people in custody and returning offenders to the community better than when they arrived by providing structure and an opportunity for positive change. Local programs include religious groups, literacy, correcting thinking errors, anger management, AODA/substance-abuse work, reentry, career readiness, HSED skillsets and testing, vocational and basic manufacturing topics, Serve Safe food-handling content, CDL preparation, and other voluntary or as-needed programs.

Huber and electronic monitoring are important jail-administered alternatives. Huber lets judge-authorized sentenced inmates serving less than one year retain work, school, treatment, childcare, or family-care obligations while serving a jail sentence. Electronic monitoring verifies that eligible people remain at the approved residence and follow program criteria. The 2025 annual report noted that four correctional staff positions were frozen or unfunded in the 2025 budget, directly affecting services the jail could provide, specifically Huber Center operations.