The Detention Center
Douglas County Jail
- Operated byDouglas County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address1036 SE Douglas Avenue, Roseburg, OR 97470 — the Justice Building; jail phone 541-440-4440
- Size232 beds, though the county notes the number actually holdable fluctuates with classification and staffing
- ThroughputAbout 6,552 bookings a year
- StaffOne corrections lieutenant (Clayton Ruble), 4 sergeants, 2 corporals, 29 deputies, 1 transport deputy and 2 front desk clerks
- ProgramsThe county names RSAT and job and life skill education among its rehabilitative programs
- VendorsSmart Communications for phones, messaging and video visitation; Access Corrections for commissary packages — no rates published
Source: Douglas County Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds232
Since then
- Not found — the Corrections page refers to a 'new Juvenile Detention Facility' beside the Justice Building but gives no date or cost, and the county website that would carry capital project records was unreachable
The Sheriff
Sheriff John Hanlin
- Runs the jailYes — Corrections is one of the Sheriff's Office divisions and the Douglas County Jail is run by a corrections lieutenant reporting to the sheriff
- How the office is filledElected countywide in a nonpartisan race
- BackgroundA Douglas County native; joined the Sheriff's Office in 1989, commanded the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team from 2001 and was promoted to lieutenant over the Detectives Division in 2005
- Size of the officeThe Sheriff's Office describes a staff of over 135, made up of more than 100 sworn officers and 50 civilian members
- AccreditationAccredited by the Northwest Accreditation Alliance
- Office1036 SE Douglas Avenue, Roseburg, OR 97470 — 541-440-4450
- How this was verifiedThe name appears in the 'Word From The Sheriff' statement on the Sheriff's Office website, on the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association page, and in the office's own FlashAlert press releases dated August 2026
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Douglas County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan races and are state judicial officers, not county officials. The 16th Judicial District is Douglas County alone and has six elected judges plus a pro tem. There is a discrepancy worth recording: the Douglas County Circuit Court's own page names Kathleen Johnson as presiding judge, while the Oregon Judicial Department's central judges directory lists Steve H. Hoddle as acting presiding judge — both are the state court system's own publications and both are recorded here rather than choosing between them. Douglas County is also one of the few Oregon counties with county justice courts, two of them, each headed by a Justice of the Peace elected to a six-year term. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions.
Douglas County Circuit Court — 16th Judicial District, Justice Building, 1036 SE Douglas Ave, Roseburg
- Kathleen E. Johnson — listed as Presiding Judge on the court's own page
- Steve H. Hoddle — listed as Circuit Court Acting Presiding Judge in the Oregon Judicial Department's judges directory
- George W. Ambrosini, Circuit Court Judge
- Robert B. Johnson, Circuit Court Judge
- Ann Marie Simmons, Circuit Court Judge
- Cadence L. Whiteley, Circuit Court Judge
- Jason R. Thomas, Pro Tem Judge
South Douglas Justice Court — 249 N Main St, Canyonville
- Machelle Briggs-Mayfield, Justice of the Peace — elected, term January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2031
Reedsport Justice Court — 680 Fir Ave, Reedsport
- Kathleen K. Miller, Justice of the Peace — term January 7, 2025 to January 7, 2031
- Scott Culpepper, Justice of the Peace — appointed and presiding, from July 10, 2023
- 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
Notes on the record
- The Sheriff's Office site is one of the better-organised in this group — the Corrections section has separate pages for bail, property, mail, messages, money deposits, commissary, phone calls, PREA, facility tours, transports, visiting and custody status. Two things it does not have are a corrections budget and any death-in-custody record.
- roster: the Corrections page links a Jail Custody Roster at jailviewer.douglascountyor.gov. That host returned HTTP 403 to this research along with the rest of the county's own domain, so the check is recorded against the Sheriff's Office page that publishes the link, which was read directly.
- capacity: the Corrections page publishes 232 beds and about 6,552 bookings a year, and is candid that the number actually holdable fluctuates with classification spacing and staffing. No daily population count is published.
- budget: recorded as 'no' because nothing could be verified. The Sheriff's Office site publishes an archive whose only entry is a 2019 Annual Report, and the county site that would carry the adopted budget was unreachable. This is a limit of what could be confirmed, not a finding that Douglas County withholds its budget.
- bond_info: the Bail page says bail can only be posted in cash, gives the jail number for the current amount, and distinguishes where to go by charging court — the County Court Clerk's office for circuit court charges, Roseburg City Hall for Roseburg Police charges, and the Intake Center door J102 for all other justice and municipal courts and for all after-hours postings.
- prea: the Sheriff's Office publishes a PREA policy statement, an incident reporting form and an online form, and states its zero-tolerance and anti-retaliation position, but publishes no audit report and no annual PREA data.
- fees: Smart Communications is named for phones, messaging and video visitation and Access Corrections for commissary, with a note that AICs may receive $50 worth of products and that calls are limited to 15 minutes, but no per-minute or per-item rate is published.
- contracts: nothing published about holding other agencies' prisoners, and no rate.
- The county's press releases are published through FlashAlert at https://flashalert.net/id/dcso rather than on the county site; that feed was reachable and its August 2026 releases were used to confirm the sheriff's name is current.
- 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/).
- Douglas County is governed by a three-member Board of Commissioners. The members, the board page and the agenda and minutes page could not be verified: the county government's own website returned HTTP 403 to every request during this research at douglascountyor.gov, www.douglascountyor.gov and douglascounty-oregon.us (which redirects there), and the county's Granicus meeting portal at douglascountyor.iqm2.com returned an error page. The block is on the county's side, not the network's — the Sheriff's Office site at dcso.com, which is part of the same county web estate, served every page requested. Rather than name commissioners from memory, they are recorded as Not found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Douglas 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 Douglas 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