The Detention Center
Grays Harbor County Jail
- Operated byGrays Harbor County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address100 W Broadway Ave, Suite 3, Montesano, WA 98563 - jail fax 360-249-3722
- Beds176 - the facility was remodelled and expanded in 1987 to 82 beds and has since been modified to reach 176
- Daily populationAverage daily population for 2023 was 104 (county page); WASPC's 2025 figure is 131
- Building historyThe original 1911 facility was used until 1972 when a new facility was built; the 1911 building later held work release inmates, was refurbished in 1985 as temporary housing during the remodel and has since been condemned
- Phone rate$0.10 per minute, with two free telephone calls per week
- Video visit rate$5.00 for a thirty-minute remote visit plus any applicable fees; remote visitation is the only public visitation offered
- Medical co-pay$20.00 charged to the inmate account for each visit to the doctor
- Indigence line$15.00 or less in the commissary account before Monday commissary ordering
- Original cost and fundingNot found - checked the Corrections Division page, the Inmate Information page, the Sheriff's Office page and the Sheriff's 2026 budget report
Source: Grays Harbor County - Corrections Division · 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 — 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 built1972 - the facility that replaced the 1911 jail
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds176 (county Corrections Division page); average daily population 104 in 2023
Since then
- 1985 - the condemned 1911 building refurbished for temporary housing during the remodel
- 1987 - current facility remodelled and expanded to 82 beds
- Later modifications took the facility to 176 beds
The Sheriff
Sheriff Darrin Wallace
- Runs the jailYes - Grays Harbor County has no separate department of corrections, so under RCW 70.48.090(4) the Sheriff has charge of the jail, run as the Corrections Division
- How the office is filledElected countywide; the county's officials table lists the office as nonpartisan
- Day-to-day jail managementTravis Davis, Chief Corrections Deputy, assisted by two lieutenants, five sergeants, nineteen deputies and nine support staff
- Command staffKevin Schrader, Undersheriff; Jason Wecker, Chief Criminal Deputy; Jeremy Holmes, Chief of Special Services; Rugena Peterson, Chief of Administrative Services
- Office100 W Broadway Ave, Suite 3, Montesano, WA 98563 - 360-249-3711
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grays Harbor 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.
Grays Harbor County Superior Court - 102 W Broadway Ave, Room 305, Montesano
- Steven G. Jackson, Judge
- Vini E. Samuel, Judge
- Katherine L. Svoboda, Judge
- Jon Beltran, Commissioner
Grays Harbor County District Court - 102 W Broadway Ave, Montesano, and District Court II, 2109 Sumner Ave, Aberdeen
- Andrea Vingo, Presiding Judge
- Megan M. Valentine, Judge
Municipal courts in the county - Aberdeen, Cosmopolis, Elma, Hoquiam and others
- Susan Solan, Judge (Aberdeen)
- Geoff Arnold, Judge (Cosmopolis and Elma)
- 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
- This is the most complete jail disclosure in the group. The Sheriff publishes a 2026 Budget Transparency Report showing Corrections as Fund 019 at $7,769,138 alongside the Sheriff's Office ($10,136,147), Emergency Management ($515,242) and Court Security ($575,678) funds, with spending to date.
- fees: marked yes for the published $0.10 per minute phone rate, two free calls a week, and $5.00 per thirty-minute remote video visit. Commissary prices are not published; the $20.00 medical visit charge and the $15.00 indigence threshold are.
- prea: the Corrections Division page links a PREA policy document (Lexipol Policy 606) - a policy, not an audit result.
- bond_info: the jail publishes a list of approved bail bond companies but no instructions on how to post bail, so this is marked no.
- The link to the Sheriff's budget report on the Sheriff's Office page is relative and resolves to a 404; the working address is the one cited here.
- Three commissioners, partisan, nominated within their district and elected countywide: Georgia Miller (District 1), Rick Hole (District 2), Vickie Raines (District 3). The board adopts the annual budget and approves all amendments under RCW 36.40.071. No jail district and no dedicated jail tax is published by the county; the jail is funded through Corrections Fund 019, budgeted at $7,769,138 for 2026.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor 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