Island County

The Detention Center

Island County Jail

• Operated byIsland County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
• Jail address503 N Main Street, Coupeville, WA 98239 (mail to 1 NE 7th Street, Coupeville)
• Published design capacity"The Jail is designed to house up to 58 inmates at any given time" (county Corrections page)
• Rated beds / average daily population58 rated beds, ADP 46.0 in CY2025 — WASPC, not the county
• Facility typeTraditional linear cell-block and dormitory facility holding both sentenced and pre-trial maximum security prisoners
• Year built1972 — "The Island County correctional facility for adults was built in 1972 and is more than 50 years old" (county Correction and Rehabilitation Center Project page)
• Expansion"remodeled with additional space in 1983" (county Corrections page)
• Replacement under studyThe Board of County Commissioners is evaluating options after an independent facility assessment found failing building systems and concluded renovation would not be economical; the county does not publish the assessment itself
• Juvenile detentionA separate county Juvenile Detention Center in Coupeville, built 2006
• Original cost / fundingNot found — checked the Corrections page, the Correction and Rehabilitation Center Project page, the Sheriff's Office page, the Commissioners Budget Information page and the county site map

Source: Island County — Corrections · checked 2026-08-23

• ✓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 — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✓How to post bond
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Island County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year built1972 (county Correction and Rehabilitation Center Project page)
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• Beds58 designed (county Corrections page); WASPC records 58 rated beds and an average daily population of 46.0 for CY2025

The Sheriff

Sheriff Rick Felici

• Runs the jailYes — Island County has no separate department of corrections, so under RCW 70.48.090(4) the Sheriff's Office has charge of the jail; it runs it as the Corrections Division
• Day-to-day jail managementJose Briones, Chief Jail Administrator (a Sheriff's Office employee, not a separate department head)
• How the office is filledElected countywide
• Office101 NE 6th Street, Law and Justice Building, Coupeville, WA 98239 — 360-679-7310

Source: Island County — Sheriff's Office staff directory · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Washington Superior Court judges are elected in nonpartisan countywide races and District Court judges in nonpartisan district races; municipal court judges are elected or appointed by the city. All 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 or the jail, sets bail. Court rosters here come from the Administrative Office of the Courts' county directory at courts.wa.gov.

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 →