The Detention Center
Pacific County Jail, run by Pacific County Jail Services
- Operated byPacific County Department of Corrections / Jail Services
- Who runs itJames "Jim" Byrd — Director, Pacific County Jail Services — Department of Corrections / Jail Services (General Fund 001.038), appointed by the Board of County Commissioners — the county's FY2026 budget names the County Commissioners as the responsible elected officials for the Department of Corrections/Jail Services, and the Director takes his requests and his year-end report directly to the Board
- Jail addressPacific County Public Safety Building, 300 Memorial Drive (PO Box 47), South Bend, WA 98586 — 360-875-9390
- Stand-alone since 2025The jail completed its first year as a stand-alone county agency in 2025 after being transferred out of the Sheriff's Office
- FY2026 budget$2,755,342 in budgeted expenditures, 17.00 FTE and $687,833 in budgeted revenue in fund 001.038
- Rated beds (state figure)58 — WASPC 2025 Annual Jail Statistics; the county publishes no capacity figure
- Average daily population 202520.7, against 58 rated beds (WASPC 2025)
- Throughput 2025389 admissions, average length of stay 22.25 days (WASPC 2025); the Director reported 355 bookings and 176 transports for 2025
- In-custody deathsThe Sheriff's Office answered 'No' for the facility in the WASPC 2025 return, but the Department of Health has posted two unexpected-fatality reviews for the Pacific County Jail, both published 30 October 2025, and the Director told the Board the jail completed two fatality review panels in 2025
- MedicalAspen Valley Telehealth provides medical and mental health care; 11 medical sensors were installed in 2025 with help from the Washington Counties Risk Pool and the Board approved 8 more on 12 February 2026, bringing the total to 19
- CommunicationsNCIC provides inmate phone, video visitation and off-site mail scanning; no rate card is published
- VisitationNo in-person visitation; remote video only, with a kiosk in the jail waiting area
- Year built / original cost / fundingNot found — checked the Jail Services pages, the mission statement PDF, the county departmental directory, the FY2026 jail-services budget and the county's historic courthouse pages
Source: Pacific County Jail Services · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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 — 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found — FY2026 operations are budgeted at $2,755,342 from the General (Current Expense) Fund 001.038
- Beds58 rated beds in the WASPC 2025 Annual Jail Statistics; the county itself publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Daniel Garcia
- Runs the jailNo — Pacific County moved the jail out of the Sheriff's Office in 2025 into a stand-alone Department of Corrections / Jail Services with its own Director and its own budget fund
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term (RCW 36.16.030)
- Command staffUndersheriff Mike Ray; Commander Mike Parker; Chief Criminal Deputy Randy Wiegardt; Chief Civil Deputy Hollie Billeci
- Sheriff's website is out of date on thisThe Sheriff's Statement still describes 'the Corrections Division of the Sheriff's Office' as responsible for the booking, housing and welfare of all adult offenders in the jail
- Offices300 Memorial Drive (PO Box 27), South Bend, WA 98586 — 360-875-9395; and 7013 Sandridge Road, Long Beach, WA 98631 — 360-642-9404
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pacific County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff's Statement · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Washington Superior Court judges are elected in nonpartisan countywide races and District Court judges 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 or the jail, sets bail. Vacancies are filled by gubernatorial appointment until the next election. Court rosters here come from the Administrative Office of the Courts' county directory.
Pacific County Superior Court — 300 Memorial Dr, South Bend
- Donald J. Richter, Judge
North Pacific District Court — 300 Memorial Dr, South Bend
- Scott A. Harmer, Judge
South Pacific District Court — 7013 Sandridge Road, Long Beach
- Kristopher A. Kaino, Judge
- Nancy R. McAllister, Judge
South Bend Municipal Court (Ilwaco and Long Beach use South Pacific District Court; Raymond uses North Pacific District Court)
- William R. Penoyar, Judge
Still needed
- 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
- Pacific County is the finding in this group. Washington's RCW 70.48.090(4) lets a county create a department of corrections that takes charge of the jail away from the chief law enforcement officer, and Pacific County has done exactly that: the FY2026 budget calls it 'Department of Corrections/Jail Services (001.038)', names the County Commissioners as the responsible elected officials, and the county's departmental directory lists JAIL SERVICES with James 'Jim' Byrd as Director separately from SHERIFF with Daniel Garcia. The brief's verified list of appointed-director counties — King, Spokane, Yakima — should be read to include Pacific from 2025.
- The two governments disagree in public. The county directory and budget put the jail under a Director answering to the Commissioners; the Sheriff's Office website still tells the public that the Corrections Division of the Sheriff's Office runs it.
- The jail roster the county publishes is unusually detailed: it lists booking number, arrest date, arresting agency, court, billing agency, bond type, bond amount, warrant or citation number and offence description for each person, and links each to VINELink.
- The county publishes a bail-and-bonds page listing seven approved bonding agencies with phone numbers and stating that cash bail is 100% of the amount ordered.
- The PREA page states the jail's zero-tolerance policy and reporting routes but publishes no audit result. No inspection or accreditation result and no phone, video-visit or commissary rate card is published.
- The county does not publish its deaths in custody; the two unexpected-fatality reviews are on the Department of Health register, not on co.pacific.wa.us.
- Board of County Commissioners — three commissioners: Lisa Olsen (District 1), David Tobin (District 2), Jerry Doyle (District 3). The FY2026 budget names the Board as the responsible elected officials for the Department of Corrections/Jail Services, which is the county department that now runs the jail; the Jail Services Director reports to the Board and asks it to approve jail purchases. No jail district and no dedicated jail tax were found — the jail is funded from the General (Current Expense) Fund, department 001.038.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pacific 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 sheriff is on your ballot
The county auditor runs the election in Pacific 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