The Detention Center
Franklin County Corrections Center
- Operated byFranklin County Department of Corrections
- Who runs itKeilen Harmon — Director of the Franklin County Department of Corrections (the county's Corrections page lists him as Chief), appointed by the Franklin County Board of County Commissioners
- Jail address1016 N 4th Ave, D-102, Pasco, WA 99301 - 509-545-3549
- Beds320-bed holding facility with an actual rated holding capacity of 300
- Daily populationAbout 200 (county Corrections page); WASPC's 2025 figure for Franklin County Corrections is an average daily population of 187.9
- BuiltThe current jail originally opened in 1986 with a capacity of 102 beds; the new jail section opened in 2014
- Original cost and fundingNot found - checked the Corrections page, the Sheriff's Office page, the Board of Commissioners page and the county budget documents
- Who else it holdsOffenders held for other counties, the Washington State Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals Office - no rates published
- StaffingA Chief, 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 1 Admin Lieutenant, 5 Sergeants, 5 Corporals, 36 Corrections Officers and 5 Records Clerks
- AccreditationAccredited by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in 2021 and again in 2026
Source: Franklin County - Corrections · 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
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1986 (opened with 102 beds); a new jail section opened in 2014
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds320 beds, rated holding capacity 300; daily average about 200
Since then
- 2014 - new jail section opened, taking the facility from 102 beds to its present size
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jim Raymond
- Runs the jailNo - on 23 April 2025 the Board of County Commissioners created a separate Franklin County Department of Corrections and moved the jail's staff, contracts and budget out of the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected countywide
- What the Sheriff's own page still saysThe Sheriff's Office page lists three operational divisions including a Corrections Division and an $18,480,816 operations budget for 2023 - it has not been updated since the transfer
- Office1016 N 4th Avenue, D201, Pasco, WA 99301 - 509-545-3501
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Franklin County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Washington Superior Court judges are elected in nonpartisan countywide races and District Court judges are elected in nonpartisan district races. Both are state judicial officers, not county officials - the county pays part of the cost but does not choose the judge. A judge, not the sheriff and not the jail, sets bail. Court rosters here come from the Administrative Office of the Courts' county directory.
Franklin County Superior Court - 1016 N 4th Ave, Pasco (Benton-Franklin joint bench)
- Bronson J. Brown, Judge
- Andrew M. Howell, Judge
- Joseph M. Burrowes, Judge
- David L. Petersen, Judge
- Norma Rodriguez, Judge
- Jacqueline Shea-Brown, Judge
- Jacqueline I. Stam, Judge
- Darin R. Campbell, Commissioner
- Brandon Holt, Commissioner
- Arthur D. Klym, Commissioner
- Megan A. Whitmire, Commissioner
Franklin County District Court - 1016 N 4th Ave, Pasco (also hears the Connell municipal calendar)
- Trinity Orosco, Judge
Pasco Municipal Court - 1016 N 4th Ave, Bldg D, Pasco
- Carlos D. Villarreal, 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
- Franklin is the sharpest Washington example in this group of RCW 70.48.090(4) being used to move the jail away from the sheriff. The Board of County Commissioners created the Franklin County Department of Corrections on 23 April 2025, transferring the jail's contracts, staff and budget from the Sheriff's Office, and appointed Keilen Harmon director on 30 April 2025 (KEPR: https://keprtv.com/news/local/commissioners-establish-franklin-county-department-of-corrections-take-over-the-jail ; NBC Right Now: https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/franklin-county-appoints-new-corrections-director-amid-sheriff-tensions/article_e1a4ba83-04a1-4eea-8446-22298f4b77c7.html ). Sheriff Jim Raymond remains the elected sheriff and has announced his retirement in 2026.
- inspections: marked yes for the WASPC corrections accreditation the county publishes on its Corrections page (2021 and 2026). WASPC accreditation is a professional association review, not a government inspection - Washington has no state jail inspectorate.
- prea: the Corrections page does not publish PREA audit results; the jail's policy manual is published in full through PowerDMS at https://public.powerdms.com/FranklinJailWA .
- budget: the county's 2024 Working Budget carries a section headed "Franklin County Corrections Budget" separate from the Sheriff's Office budget. The document is a scan; we OCR'd it to confirm.
- contracts: the county says it holds people for other counties, the state DOC and the U.S. Marshals Office, but publishes no rate.
- bond_info: the Clerk's Bail Bonds page publishes the bail bond order of justification and judicial resolution - documents governing bond agents - not instructions for a member of the public trying to post bail.
- Three commissioners elected by district: Stephen Bauman (District 1, Chair Pro-Tem), Rocky Mullen (District 2, Chair), Clint Didier (District 3). This board is the body that created the Department of Corrections on 23 April 2025 and appointed its director a week later. No jail district and no dedicated jail tax is published by the county.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Franklin 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 auditor runs the election in Franklin 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