The Detention Center
Adams County Jail
- Operated byAdams County Sheriff's Office
- Address201 Industrial Avenue, Council, ID 83612 (same building as the Sheriff's Office)
- Rated capacity (ISA jail directory)31 rated / 25 average daily population — Idaho Sheriffs' Association Directory of Idaho's Jails (county site does not publish a bed count)
- Phone/commissary vendorCTEL / Consolidated Telecom Inc. (www.inmatesales.com) — no rate schedule published on the county site
Source: Adams County, Idaho — Jail Visitor Information · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byCounty (Adams County Sheriff's Office)
- Beds31 rated capacity — Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory (not published on the county's own site)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ryan Zollman
- Runs the jailYes — the Adams County Sheriff's Office operates the Adams County Jail; Jail Supervisor is Andrea Yoakum
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Code Title 20 Ch. 6 makes the sheriff jailer
- Office location201 Industrial Ave, Council, ID 83612
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Adams County, Idaho — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho's District Court serves the judicial district (Adams is in the Third Judicial District, with Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, and Washington counties) and Magistrate Court judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face retention election. Both are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Third Judicial District / Magistrate Division — Judicial Office (Adams County)
- Hon. John Meienhofer
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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
- Idaho has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; the Idaho Sheriffs' Association runs a voluntary jail standards/inspection program whose reports are not public.
- The Adams County Budget & Financial Statements link is a Dropbox folder maintained by the county, linked from the Commissioners page, rather than a page hosted directly on co.adams.id.us.
- Adams County Board of County Commissioners — three members: Joe Iveson (District 1), Daren Ward (District 2), Viki Purdy (District 3, Chairman). Idaho Code allows counties to expand beyond three members, but Adams has not.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Adams 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.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered