Collier County, Florida — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Collier County Jail Center (Naples) and Immokalee Jail Center

Operated byCollier County Sheriff's Office
Naples jail address3347 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112
Immokalee jail address302 Stockade Road, Immokalee, FL 34142
FacilitiesSheriff's Corrections Department describes 'two county jails'
287(g)Sheriff states it participates in the federal 287(g) program; no agreement document posted
Jail AdministratorChief Chris Roberts, Corrections Department

Source: Collier County Sheriff's Office — Corrections Department · checked 2026-09-28

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✓PREA audits
✗Independent inspection — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Collier County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-28. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Kevin J. Rambosk

Runs the jailYes — the Collier County Sheriff's Office Corrections Department runs the county's two jails (Naples and Immokalee)
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Collier County Sheriff's Office — home page · checked 2026-09-28

The Judges

Florida's circuit and county judges are elected state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge sets the first conditions of release at first appearance, within 24 hours of arrest.

Who sets bail in Collier County

Circuit Court: Florida's Twentieth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Charlotte, Glades, Hendry and Lee (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
County Court: the Collier County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-28

The Board of County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it; in some, the county does.

What they controlThe sheriff's budget, including its separate line for corrections and detention: the sheriff submits it by June 1 and the board may amend, increase or reduce it (Fla. Stat. 30.49). The board also owns the jail building, and it decides by ordinance whether the sheriff or a county corrections department runs the jail (Fla. Stat. 951.061).
What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff runs the jail. The sheriff is separately elected, and can appeal the board's budget cuts to the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the Administration Commission. No state agency inspects the jail; peer inspectors from other sheriffs' offices do.
The boardCollier County Board of County Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

colliersheriff.org confirmed as Collier County, Florida; Sheriff Kevin Rambosk named on the home page.
Sheriff's Corrections Department (Chief Chris Roberts) runs two jails: Collier County Jail Center in Naples and Immokalee Jail Center.
PREA page gives zero-tolerance policy, reporting numbers, a 2025 PREA annual report and links to audit reports for both jails.
County FY 2026 adopted budget (collier.gov) lists a Sheriff 'Detention and Correction' line, so budget = yes.
Fees: sheriff's inmate-services brochure (Rev. Feb 2015) lists e-message (50 cents), jail ATM ($3.25 cash, 10% card), notary and copy charges; phone and video-visit rates not given.
Roster: sheriff's 'find out who's in jail' page links only an arrest/warrant search by booking date or name, not a current in-custody list, so roster = no.
No capacity, deaths, inspection report, contracts or bond-posting guidance found on pages opened.
What was tried: http://www.colliersheriff.org (refused, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); corrections-jail-information page (403); Naples jail PREA audit link showpublisheddocument/79790 (404).
One search used.
State inspection/oversight: Florida requires every county jail to meet the Florida Model Jail Standards and to be inspected each year, but the inspectors come from other sheriffs' offices, not a state agency, and state law does not require the reports to be published.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Collier County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).

How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriff is elected. So are the county commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.

Names verified 2026-09-28 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered