Limited space for inmates in an often overcrowded jail is nothing new to Douglas County, as the Journal-World has reported over the past several years, and concerns about that were a driving force ...

Some Douglas County inmates are being housed in other counties in the region. Two are housed in Bayfield County and 23 more are in Barron County. Most of the jail's out-of-county contracts, which ...

Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said this feature was added after people began asking if Venezuelan gang members were being housed in the jail in Castle Rock. “I get a lot of questions from ...

The design of the Douglas County jail is an outdated 1930s-era model with cramped conditions for inmates as well as staff. Our Communities Editor Opened in 1986, the Douglas County jail in Tuscola ...

While the jail is still down five employees, it's an improvement over the 12 vacancies that forced the sheriff to begin housing Douglas County inmates in other counties. In May, as few as 20 jail ...