The Detention Center
Yamhill County Correctional Facility (YCCF)
- Operated byYamhill County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address535 NE 5th Street, McMinnville, OR 97128 - jail 503-434-7507; YCCF Records 503-434-7507 x4490; Work Release Office x4481; Release Office 503-474-4985
- Bookings3,250 total bookings in 2025, against 3,281 in 2024 and 3,303 in 2023. Of the 2025 admissions 77.66 per cent were male, 22.31 per cent female and 0.15 per cent non-binary
- Average daily population127 adults in custody in 2025, the figure in the county's own 2025 PREA annual report
- BedsNot found. Neither the county's jail pages, its annual report nor its PREA report publishes a bed count or rated capacity
- Age of the building'maintenance needs remain frequent in our aging facility, with even the newest section nearing 30 years old' - the Sheriff's own message in the 2025 Annual Report, dated 25 March 2026
- MoneyThe 2025 Annual Report budget table shows 10-41 Jail at $9,358,342 with 35.2 FTE for 2025-2026, against $8,654,365 and 33.5 FTE the year before and $7,908,775 and 34.5 FTE in 2023-2024, plus a Jail Capital line of $346,047. The jail is 35.03 per cent of the Sheriff's Office budget
- Renting beds out'Our average daily population has increased, largely due to bed rental contracts' - the Sheriff's 2025 Annual Report. The report's population chart separates 'Average Daily 1145 Population' and 'Average Rental Bed Population'. No rate is published
- ProgrammesThe Corrections Division screens every new intake for substance use disorder and runs a Jail-Based Medication for Opioid Use Disorder programme funded by grant; there is also a work release office and a jail K9 programme
- Services in the facility'The Yamhill County Correctional Facility is a small community within the community. It provides many of the same services that you have in your community: medical and dental care, a commissary, social and educational programs, as well as drug and alcohol and psychological counseling'
- What was triedThe Corrections Division page and all its sub-pages, the Adults In Custody roster, the Bail and Commissary page, the AIC Telephone Rules, the PREA page and the 2025 PREA Annual Report, the Sheriff's 2025 Annual Report and the Board of Commissioners pages were all read. No bed count, no death in custody, no independent inspection result and no bed-rental rate is published
Source: Yamhill County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found. The Sheriff's 2025 Annual Report says only that the facility is aging and that 'even the newest section' is 'nearing 30 years old', which would put the newest part in the later 1990s
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found. Average daily population was 127 in 2025
Since then
- Not found, beyond the Sheriff's reference to a 'newest section'
The Sheriff
Sheriff Sam Elliott
- Runs the jailYes. The Corrections Division of the Sheriff's Office runs the Yamhill County Correctional Facility
- How the office is filledElected. ORS 204.005 requires Oregon sheriffs to be elected to four-year terms
- OfficeYamhill County Sheriff's Office, 535 NE 5th Street, McMinnville, OR 97128 - business office and records 503-434-7506, jail 503-434-7507, sheriff@yamhillcounty.gov
- What he has announcedThe formation of a Street Crimes and Narcotics (SCAN) team: 'In response to the growing threat posed by fentanyl and the broader epidemic of illicit drug use in our communities, I am announcing the formation of a dedicated drug enforcement team within Yamhill County Sheriff's Office'
- Accountability'As your Sheriff, I remain committed to transparency and accountability. I will continue to keep the public informed as we advance this critical initiative' - Sheriff Sam Elliott, on the county's own Sheriff page
- How this was verifiedSigned as Sheriff on the county's own Sheriff's Office page and named in the county's published 2025 Annual Report
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Yamhill County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. They are elected in nonpartisan races to six-year terms under Article VII of the Oregon Constitution and ORS chapter 3; mid-term vacancies are filled by gubernatorial appointment and the appointee then stands for election. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security (bail) amounts and release conditions; the sheriff's office or the jail only receives the money and releases the person. ORS 169.320 makes the sheriff the keeper of the county jail and allows the sheriff to appoint a keeper, but the sheriff remains responsible. In the court's own words, 'The Yamhill Circuit Court is the 25th Judicial District of Oregon. Yamhill County's judicial district has four elected judges.' Yamhill County has no Justice Court. Bail is posted at the Trial Court Clerk's office in Room 135 of the courthouse during business hours and at the Team3 kiosk in the Correctional Facility lobby after hours, so the county jail and the state court share the bail counter between them.
Circuit Court - 25th Judicial District (Yamhill County), Yamhill County Courthouse, 535 NE 5th Street, McMinnville. The courthouse was built in 1964
- Ladd J. Wiles - Presiding Judge, 503-434-3054
- Jennifer K. Chapman
- Cynthia L. Easterday
- Cynthia Kaufman Noble
- Mandi Montgomery - Trial Court Administrator (court staff, not a judge)
- 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
- Yamhill County publishes an unusually complete fee picture. Its AIC Telephone Rules page gives the actual rates: all calls in the United States $0.16 a minute, Mexico and Canada $0.16, Cuba $0.75, other international $0.35, billed per minute with no connection fee, through NCIC; inbound voicemail is $1.50 for up to three minutes. That is why the fees check is yes even though no commissary price list is published.
- The roster is the county's own, at ext-web.yamhillcounty.gov/AIC/, and carries the notice that under HB 3273 (2021) booking photographs may not be released to the general public unless there is a law enforcement purpose or the person has been convicted.
- Capacity is marked no: the county publishes an average daily population, 127 in 2025, but no bed count or rated capacity anywhere that was found.
- PREA is marked yes on the county's published 2025 PREA Annual Report, which gives the facility's admissions and average daily population and reports the year's allegations by category. It is an internal annual report, not an external audit; no external PREA auditor's report is published.
- Contracts is marked no. The Sheriff's annual report says the average daily population rose 'largely due to bed rental contracts' and charts a separate 'Average Rental Bed Population', but names no agency and publishes no rate.
- Payments changed on 20 February 2025: 'Yamhill County Correctional Facility's payment portal is now offered by Team3 Software Solutions'. Bail can be posted at the Trial Court Clerk's office in business hours, at the Team3 kiosk in the facility lobby after hours, or online at team3.inmatecanteen.com.
- Board of Commissioners, three members: Chair Kit Johnston, Mary Starrett and (Bubba) David King, at 535 NE 5th St., McMinnville, OR 97128. Formal Session every Thursday at 10:00 a.m. in the Public Hearing Room, 400 NE Baker Street, McMinnville. Written public comment must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday before the formal session. Yamhill County has no jail district and no dedicated jail tax; the jail is a line in the Sheriff's Office general fund budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Yamhill 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 Yamhill 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