The Detention Center
Lane County Jail - the Main Jail Facility, also called the Lane County Adult Corrections Facility in its PREA audit and its mail address
- Operated byLane County Sheriff's Office, Adult Corrections Division
- Jail address101 W. 5th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401 - 541-682-4263. The Defendant Offender Management Center is at the same address
- When it was built'The Main Jail facility was constructed in 1979, with new additions completed in 1988 and 1999' - the Corrections Division's own history page
- Rated capacity411 beds. A federal consent decree sets population caps, so only 382 of the 411 funded beds may be used
- Beds sold to other agencies21 of those 382, leaving Lane County 361 beds for local adult offenders - the county's own FY2026-27 budget service option sheet
- How the beds are paid forA voter-approved Local Option Levy passed in May 2013 and renewed for 2023-2028 funds 292 of the beds; the General Fund allocation supports the minimum 255 local beds provided by the levy plus booking, records, medical and mental health, food, laundry and maintenance
- Cost of running it$18,202,599 proposed for the Violent Offender Jail Capacity service in FY2026-27, of which $11,308,051 is General Fund, at 71.20 FTE
- ScopeThe Lane County Jail is the only jail in Lane County that can hold defendants charged with felony-level crimes
- Levy accountabilityThe county publishes annual Local Option Tax Levy examination reports on the jail's own documents page, for years ended June 2014 through June 2020
Source: Lane County Sheriff's Office - Adult Corrections Division · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1979, with additions completed in 1988 and 1999 - the Sheriff's Office's own Corrections Division history
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byBeds are funded by a voter-approved county Public Safety Local Option Levy passed in May 2013 and renewed for 2023-2028, which funds 292 beds, plus contract revenue, state revenue and the county General Fund. The county publishes annual levy examination reports. Construction financing for 1979, 1988 and 1999 is not published
- Beds411 total capacity; a federal consent decree caps usable beds at 382; 21 are contracted to other agencies, leaving 361 local beds
Since then
- Addition completed 1988
- Addition completed 1999
- Housing areas previously closed for lack of money reopened in July 2013 after the jail-bed levy passed
The Sheriff
Sheriff Carl E. Wilkerson III
- Runs the jailYes - the Sheriff's Office Adult Corrections Division operates the Lane County Jail and the Residential Reentry Center
- How the office is filledElected. ORS 204.005 requires Oregon sheriffs to be elected; ORS 204.010 sets a four-year term
- CareerA deputy since 1996; worked the Corrections Division security section for about three and a half years, then court security and inmate transport, then patrol, then detective from 2005, sergeant in 2013, and Chief Deputy from 2019 before becoming Sheriff
- Office125 E. 8th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401 - 541-682-4150
- TrainingGraduate of the FBI National Academy class 277 and holds an Executive Police Certification from DPSST
- How this was verifiedNamed on the county's own Sheriff's Office page and in the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association biography for Lane County
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lane County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan races to six-year terms and are state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions; the sheriff's office only receives the money and releases the person. Justices of the Peace are the hybrid: a JP is both a state-authorised court judge and a county elected official, elected to a six-year term, with the county paying for the court. Lane County is the whole of the 2nd Judicial District and has seventeen circuit judges, the largest bench in this group. The county also runs one Justice Court, at Florence; before 2012 there were three, at Oakridge, Springfield and Florence, and a citing officer may still choose between Circuit, Justice and Municipal court.
Circuit Court - 2nd Judicial District (Lane County)
- Karrie K. McIntyre - Presiding Judge, position 13
- Debra E. Velure - position 1
- Michelle P. Bassi - position 2
- Bradley A. Cascagnette - position 3
- Charles M. Zennache - position 4
- Stephen W. Morgan - position 5
- Amit K. Kapoor - position 6
- Jay A. McAlpin - position 7
- Valeri L. Love - position 8
- Erin A. Fennerty - position 9
- Kamala H. Shugar - position 10
- Beatrice N. Grace - position 11
- Curtis Conover - position 12
- Nathan J. Lichvarcik - position 14
- Clara L. Rigmaiden - position 15
- Jessica E. May - position 16
- Allison E. Knight - position 17
Lane County Justice Court - 900 Greenwood St, Florence
- Richard B. Brissenden II, Justice of the Peace
- 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
- fees: this is the strongest fee disclosure in the group. The county's own jail page publishes the Smart Communications rates - eight SMS messages a month free then ten cents each, inbound voicemail at one dollar each, email messages at fifty cents each, approved photos at fifty cents, premium tablet entertainment at three cents a minute - and states that five phone calls a week of up to fifteen minutes and one thirty-minute remote video visit a week are free, with onsite video visiting in the ground floor lobby at no charge.
- prea: the county publishes two PREA facility audit reports on the jail's documents page, one for the Main Jail Facility and one for the Residential Reentry Center, both 2019, plus PREA annual reports for 2020 and 2021 and general order 12.11 on PREA. That is a genuine third-party audit result, though the audits are now several years old.
- capacity: beds are published precisely in the FY2026-27 budget service option sheet - 411 total, 382 usable under a federal consent decree, 21 contracted out, 361 local. An average daily population figure is not published, but the Adult in Custody Viewer lists everyone currently in custody.
- contracts is recorded 'no' only because no rate is published. The existence and size of the outside contracts is public - the county states that 21 of its beds are contracted to other agencies and that contract revenue helps fund jail services - but no per-day price appears.
- bond_info: the jail pages, the how-do-I jail page and the commissary page were all read and none explains how to post bail. The county publishes detailed rules on visiting, mail, phones, records and commissary but nothing on bail.
- deaths, inspections: nothing published by the county.
- state_inspection: Oregon has no published state jail inspection result. The Oregon State Sheriffs' Association runs the inspection programme and publishes its standards at https://oregonsheriffs.org/jail-standards/ but no per-jail finding.
- Lane County is governed by a five-member Board of County Commissioners elected by district: Ryan Ceniga (District 1, West Lane), David Loveall (District 2, Springfield), Laurie Trieger (District 3, South Eugene), Pat Farr (District 4, North Eugene) and Heather Buch (District 5, East Lane). The board matters more than usual to this jail: the Public Safety Local Option Levy that funds 292 of the jail's beds is a voter-approved county levy, renewed for 2023-2028, and the board publishes annual levy examination reports on the jail's own documents page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lane 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 Lane 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