The Detention Center
Grant County Jail (the county also calls it the Grant County Correctional Facility)
- Operated byGrant County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address205 S Humbolt, Canyon City, OR 97820 — 541-575-1134
- Jail commanderWade Waddel, Corrections Sergeant — he is also the facility's named PREA contact
- Year built1997 — 'a relatively newer facility built in 1997' in the county's own words
- Size41 hard beds with the option of up to 7 temporary beds; the county says its daily population 'rarely exceeds twenty adults in custody on average'
- Population, independently checkedThe PREA audit of May 2026 records a designed capacity of 41, a population of 10 on the audit date and an average daily population of 13 over the preceding 12 months, and states the facility had not been over capacity in that period
- Housing layoutFrom the PREA audit: six housing units holding up to five people each in open dorm settings, one of them adapted for ADA needs; one special housing cell; two units holding four people each in two cells with a day area; and two single holding cells in intake
- StaffingTwo staff required on every shift 24/7 under the county's jail staffing plan, which the audit notes matches the Oregon jail standard set by the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association; eight staff who may have contact with people in custody
- ProgramsIndoor and outdoor recreation, a library and a small law library, basketball, ping pong, television and weights — funded from commissary rather than taxes, in the county's account
- No work releaseThe county states plainly that the jail does not provide a work release program
- Outside reviewThe audit records that the US Marshals Service completed an inspection with no finding of inadequacy, that a grand jury conducts an annual review with no inadequacies found, that the OSSA inspection found no inadequacies in any area relevant to the audit, and that a judge completes an annual walk-through
Source: Grant County — Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗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 built1997
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds41 hard beds plus up to 7 temporary beds; the independent PREA audit records the designed capacity as 41
Since then
- Not found — the county publishes no capital history for the jail beyond the 1997 build date
The Sheriff
Sheriff Todd McKinley
- Runs the jailYes — the Grant County Jail is run by the Sheriff's Office, with a Corrections Sergeant, Wade Waddel, as its day-to-day commander
- How the office is filledElected countywide in a nonpartisan race. The county's own page says 'The current elected term is the first for Sheriff Todd McKinley'
- When electedElected in November 2020 and sworn in on 4 January 2021
- BackgroundBegan in Grant County in 1999 as a reserve deputy, hired as a school resource officer in 2001, promoted to undersheriff in 2009, and director of Community Corrections from December 2015
- Size of the office17 full-time staff: an undersheriff, a patrol sergeant, 5 patrol/criminal deputies, a corrections sergeant, 10 corrections deputies and a civil/clerical deputy, plus search and rescue volunteers and reserves
- Command staffUndersheriff Zach Mobley, Patrol Sergeant Damon Rand, Civil Deputy Anna Marie Kuhn
- Office205 S Humbolt, Canyon City, OR 97820 — 541-575-1131
- How this was verifiedNamed on the county's own Sheriff's Office page, in the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association biography, and throughout the PREA facility audit of the county jail finalised 19 June 2026
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grant County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan statewide-scheduled races and are state judicial officers, not county officials. Justices of the Peace are unusual: a JP is both a state court judge and a county elected official, elected to a six-year term, and the county pays for the court. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions; the sheriff's office only receives the money and releases the person. Grant and Harney together form the 24th Judicial District and share a single elected circuit judge, Robert S. Raschio, who is also the presiding judge. Grant County's own Justice Court page is unusually clear that a Justice of the Peace is 'both a state court judge and a county elected official'.
Circuit Court — 24th Judicial District (Grant and Harney counties)
- Robert S. Raschio — Presiding Judge; the 24th Judicial District has one elected circuit judge for both counties
Grant County Justice Court — 201 S Humbolt Street, Canyon City
- Hon. Kathy Stinnett, Justice of the Peace
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
- Grant County is the strongest disclosure in this group on the two checks that are usually blank everywhere. It publishes the full text of the independent PREA facility audit of its jail — final report 19 June 2026, on-site 6-8 May 2026, auditor Denise Diamond — together with PREA annual reports for 2024 and 2025, its PREA policy, a pamphlet and a right-to-report brochure.
- inspections: recorded 'yes' on the strength of that PREA audit, which is an independent outside review of the facility published in full by the county itself, not a summary.
- capacity: the jail page publishes 41 hard beds, up to 7 temporary beds, and a statement that the daily population rarely exceeds about twenty. That is a bed count and a population statement, so the check passes, though there is no daily count.
- bond_info: the jail page has a Bail section setting out who may post, what is accepted (PayPal, cash, cashier's cheque, money order), that a third party or the arrestee may post, and that instruments are verified with the issuer before release.
- roster: no list of people in custody is published anywhere on the county site.
- budget: recorded 'no'. The County Budget Committee page publishes its membership, meeting arrangements and a link to agendas and minutes but no budget document, and the Document Center index is rendered by JavaScript and returned no readable list. The AgendaCenter does carry a Budget Committee category of agendas. This is a limit on what the county publishes, not a finding that it has no corrections budget.
- fees: the county publishes quarterly 'Adult in Custody Phone Services' reports and quarterly 'Commissary Expenditure' reports for the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2025 and the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2026 — an unusual disclosure. They are scanned images rather than text, and the jail page describes collect calls and prepaid cards and a commissary with 'a nominal markup' without publishing any rate, so the fees check is recorded 'no'. The reports are at https://grantcountyoregon.net/DocumentCenter/View/2601/Adult-in-Custody-Phone-Services-Report-2nd-Quarter-2026pdf and https://grantcountyoregon.net/DocumentCenter/View/2604/Commissary-Expenditure-Report-2nd-Quarter-2026pdf
- deaths: nothing published about any death in custody.
- contracts: nothing published about holding other agencies' prisoners, and no rate.
- state_inspection: Oregon has no state jail inspectorate, and the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association publishes its jail standards but no per-jail result. What Grant County publishes is second-hand but real: its PREA audit records that 'The OSSA inspection found no inadequacies in any areas relevant to this audit', alongside a US Marshals inspection, an annual grand jury review and an annual judicial walk-through, all with no findings. That published account is cited in the state_inspection field.
- Grant County is governed by a County Court of three elected officials — County Judge Jim Hamsher and Commissioners John Rowell and Mitch Wilson. The Court meets on the first and third Wednesdays of the month and livestreams on WebEx. It holds both executive and legislative authority and is the county's sole legal contracting authority; the County Judge's judicial role is limited to probate. Three citizen members sit with the County Court on the six-member Budget Committee: Charlene Morris, Kathy Smith and Amy Kreger.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grant 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 Grant 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