The Detention Center
Coos County Jail
- Operated byCoos County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address200 E. 2nd Street, Coquille, OR 97423 — 541-396-7850 (booking); the Sheriff's Office itself is at 250 N. Baxter, Coquille
- Published boarding rateGeneral boarding fee of $229.76 per day, or actual daily cost, whichever is less, plus charges as provided by ORS 169.150
- Published health care feesJail clinic $5.00 per visit; medical records $5.00 for 0-25 pages and $10.00 for 26 pages or more
- Holding other agencies' prisonersThe Sheriff's Office fee schedule carries a line for 'Housing Inmates for other Agencies' but says only 'rates specified in contracts'
- Beds / year built / cost / funding / expansionsNot found — checked the Coos County Jail page, the Sheriff's Office page, the fee schedule, the corrections roster pages and the 2026-2027 adopted budget book, which carries a Jail Division line (1601) but no bed count
Source: Coos County — Coos County Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found — the jail appears in the county's adopted budget as Jail Division 1601, totalling about $7.4 million in 2023-24 and about $7.75 million in 2024-25, but no capital funding history is published
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Gabe Fabrizio
- Runs the jailYes — ORS 169.320 puts the sheriff in charge; the Coos County Jail is listed under the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected countywide; took office January 1, 2023
- BackgroundTwenty years in the U.S. Army as a Psychological Operations Specialist, retiring as a First Sergeant in 2013; hired part-time in the Coos County jail before becoming a patrol deputy, later Administrative Captain
- Office250 N. Baxter, Coquille, OR 97423 — 541-396-7800
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Oregon State Sheriffs' Association — Coos County · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan races and are state judicial officers, not county officials. Coos and Curry counties share the 15th Judicial District; four of its elected judges sit in Coos County and its presiding judge, Martin E. Stone, is one of them. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions.
Coos County Circuit Court — 15th Judicial District, Coos County Courthouse, 250 N Baxter St, Coquille
- Martin E. Stone, Presiding Judge
- Andrew E. Combs, Circuit Court Judge
- Matthew P. Muenchrath, Circuit Court Judge
- Brett A. Pruess, Circuit Court Judge
Justice Court — none in Coos County
- Not applicable — the Oregon Judicial Department's registry lists no justice court in Coos County; the municipal courts at Bandon, Coquille, Myrtle Point and Powers are city courts, none of them a court of record
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 2026-08-23
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Coos County's jail page is almost entirely about visitation rules; it does not give a bed count, a daily population, a year built or a construction history.
- roster: the Corrections Alpha Roster page carries a notice that the office is switching jail management systems and links a live roster at https://jailroster.justiceconnect.us/coos/. The county also publishes a daily court list, a 'futures' list and an upcoming release list.
- budget: adopted budget books back to 2016-17 are published as PDFs, and the jail is a separately identified division (1601) inside them, so the corrections budget is genuinely public even though there is no standalone jail budget page.
- fees: the Sheriff's Office fee schedule is detailed and does publish corrections charges — a $229.76 general boarding fee, a $5 jail clinic visit fee, medical records charges and a work release boarding fee — but it publishes nothing for phone calls, video visits or commissary, which is what this check asks about.
- contracts: the fee schedule acknowledges housing prisoners for other agencies but expressly withholds the rates, saying only that they are 'specified in contracts'. No contract or rate was published.
- bond_info: no page on the county site explains how to post bail at the Coos County Jail.
- deaths: no death-in-custody notice or report found on the county site.
- The county website rate-limits rapid requests (HTTP 429), which slowed but did not prevent this research.
- state_inspection: Oregon has no state jail inspectorate. The Oregon State Sheriffs' Association publishes its voluntary OSSA Jail Standards and states that every Oregon sheriff has agreed to them and that each county jail is inspected on a bi-annual basis, but OSSA publishes the standards document only — no per-jail inspection result for this county was published on oregonsheriffs.org or on the county's own site (https://oregonsheriffs.org/jail-standards/).
- Coos County is governed by a three-member Board of Commissioners — John Sweet, Rod Taylor and Drew Farmer — meeting at 225 North Adams Street, Coquille. All three sit on the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council. The county has no jail district and no dedicated jail tax that could be found; the jail is funded as Division 1601 inside the Sheriff's budget, which the county's adopted budget book shows at about $7.75 million for 2024-25.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Coos 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 who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
The sheriff is on your ballot
The county clerk runs the election in Coos County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from USA.gov and vote.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered