The Detention Center
Stevens County Jail
- Operated byStevens County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address215 S Oak St, Colville, WA 99114 (PO Box 186) — 509-684-4707
- Rated beds (state figure)45 — WASPC 2025 Annual Jail Statistics; the county publishes no bed count
- Average daily population 202563.0, against 45 rated beds — the jail averaged more people than its rated capacity through 2025 (WASPC 2025)
- Throughput 20251,010 admissions, average length of stay 24.5 days (WASPC 2025)
- In-custody deaths 2025None — the Sheriff's Office answered "No" in the WASPC 2025 return
- Posting bailThe Sheriff's Jail page carries a "Send Inmate Funds or Post Bail" link to the Inmate Canteen service; no cash, hours or bond guidance is published on the page
- Inmate communicationsEmail, phone, visitation and a "Chirper" tablet service are listed; no rates are published
- Year built / original cost / fundingNot found — checked the Sheriff's Jail page, the Sheriff's Office page, the inmate service, mail and visitation pages, the public safety page and the commissioners' pages
Source: Stevens County — Sheriff's Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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
- Beds45 rated beds in the WASPC 2025 return; the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brad Manke
- Runs the jailYes — Stevens County has created no department of corrections, so under RCW 70.48.090(4) the Sheriff has charge of the jail; the county publishes it as the Sheriff's Jail
- How the office is filledElected countywide to a four-year term (RCW 36.16.030)
- Office215 S Oak St, Room 113, Colville, WA 99114 — 509-684-5296, after hours 509-684-2555
- Jail commanderNot found — the county Sheriff's Office and Sheriff's Jail pages name no corrections chief
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Stevens County — Sheriff's Office · 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 and not 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. The AOC directory does not identify which Stevens Superior Court judge is presiding.
Stevens County Superior Court — 215 S Oak St, Rm 209, Colville
- Lisa Malpass, Judge
- Lech J. Radzimski, Judge
- Thomas F. Webster, Judge
- Robin R. McCroskey, Commissioner
Stevens County District Court — 215 S Oak St, Rm 213, Colville
- Gina A. Tveit, Judge
- Timothy Trageser, Commissioner
- 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
- The single most striking figure in this county's record is not published by the county at all: the WASPC 2025 return shows an average daily population of 63.0 against 45 rated beds. Stevens is the only jail in this group whose average population for the year exceeded its rated capacity.
- The bail check is credited on a thin basis — the Sheriff's Jail page carries a 'Send Inmate Funds or Post Bail' link to the Inmate Canteen vendor, and nothing more. There is no county page explaining cash bail, hours or bond procedure.
- The county publishes no bed count, no daily population, no corrections budget document, no PREA material, no death-in-custody information, no inspection or accreditation result, no housing contract and no phone or commissary rate card.
- The Sheriff's Office also maintains a separate site at sheriff.stevenscountywa.gov; the checks above are judged on the county's own stevenscountywa.gov pages.
- Board of County Commissioners — three commissioners nominated in a district primary and elected countywide to four-year terms: Monty Stobart (District 1), Mark Burrows (District 2), Greg Young (District 3, chairman). Offices at 230 E Birch St, Colville, mailing 215 S Oak St. No jail district and no dedicated jail tax appear on the county site, and no adopted budget document could be located on it.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Stevens 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 Stevens 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