The Detention Center
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Adult Jail
- Operated byDeschutes County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address63333 W. Highway 20, Bend, OR 97703 — the office describes the site as being on West Highway 20 across from the Cascade Village Shopping Center; jail information 541-388-6661
- Size362 beds after the 2014 remodel and addition
- Built1994
- Who it holdsThe Sheriff's Office says the jail is the county's primary detention facility and holds people on behalf of multiple law enforcement agencies
- Phone vendorTelmate / ViaPath — collect calls or pre-paid accounts, kiosks in the lobby and Inmate Services area — no rates published
Source: Deschutes County Sheriff's Office — Adult Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1994
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds362
Since then
- 2014 — a remodel and addition added 144 beds, taking total capacity to 362
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ty Rupert
- Runs the jailYes — the Adult Jail is a division of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected countywide, but the current sheriff reached the office by appointment: Captain Ty Rupert took the oath on July 31, 2025 as the 11th Sheriff of Deschutes County and serves on an interim basis through December 31, 2026
- Who swore him inPresiding Judge Wells Ashby, in the Deschutes County Courthouse
- BackgroundJoined the Sheriff's Office in 2005; served as detective lieutenant, patrol lieutenant, patrol sergeant and detective; U.S. Marine Corps 1987-1991
- Corrections commanderCaptain Michael Gill
- Office63333 W. Highway 20, Bend, OR 97703 — 541-388-6655; jail information 541-388-6661
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Oregon State Sheriffs' Association — Deschutes County · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan races and are state judicial officers, not county officials. The 11th Judicial District is Deschutes County alone and is the largest bench in this group, with nine positions, one of them vacant. The county also has a Justice Court at Redmond whose Justice of the Peace is elected to a six-year term. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions; the Sheriff's Office says plainly that the jail 'does not handle, control, or refund security once it is posted' because it is forwarded to the courts.
Deschutes County Circuit Court — 11th Judicial District, Deschutes County Courthouse, 1100 NW Bond St, Bend
- Randy Miller, Presiding Judge
- Raymond D. Crutchley, Circuit Court Judge
- Beth M. Bagley, Circuit Court Judge
- Alycia N. Sykora, Circuit Court Judge
- Wells B. Ashby, Circuit Court Judge
- Alison M. Emerson, Circuit Court Judge
- Michelle A. McIver, Circuit Court Judge
- Alycia M. Herriott, Circuit Court Judge
- Position 3 — listed as vacant in the Oregon Judicial Department's judges directory
Deschutes County Justice Court — 411 SW 9th St, Room 230, Redmond
- Charles N. Fadeley, Justice of the Peace — elected, term January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2028
- 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
- bond_info is the strongest in the group. The Posting Bail page runs to well over a thousand words: who may post, the 10 percent rule and its traffic-charge exception, the 24-hour Inmate Services door, the exact forms of payment accepted and refused, the 15 percent the court keeps from a refunded 10 percent security, the fact that a refund may be applied to the defendant's other court debts, and the warning that 'you might not receive a refund'. It also explains recognizance release and who may act as a responsible person.
- capacity: the jail page publishes the 1994 build date, the 2014 addition of 144 beds and the resulting 362-bed total. No daily population count is published alongside it, though the live inmate list reflects current custody.
- roster: the Current Inmate List is a JailTracker roster embedded on the Sheriff's Office site; the page states the roster is updated continuously and that the jail holds people for multiple law enforcement agencies.
- contracts: the Sheriff's Office says the jail houses people on behalf of multiple agencies but publishes no intergovernmental agreement and no per-day rate.
- fees: Telmate / ViaPath is named and three deposit routes are given, but no per-minute call rate, video visit rate or commissary price list is published.
- prea: no PREA page, policy statement, report or audit was found on the Sheriff's Office site.
- deaths: the Sheriff's Office runs a news page, a public notices page, an officer-involved-shooting updates page and a 'By The Numbers' activity report page; none carried a death-in-custody notice or report at the time of 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/).
- Deschutes County is governed by a three-member Board of County Commissioners elected at large to four-year terms — Patti Adair, Phil Chang and Anthony (Tony) DeBone, holding Positions 1, 2 and 3. The Board sets the budget with three lay members of the Budget Committee and appoints a county administrator; it is also the governing body of the county's 911 Service District and several other service districts. No jail district and no dedicated jail tax were found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Deschutes 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 county clerk runs the election in Deschutes 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