The Detention Center
Bannock County Detention Center
- Operated byBannock County Sheriff's Office
- Address5800 S. 5th Avenue, Pocatello, ID 83204
- HistoryOriginal jail built 1955 (72-inmate capacity); current facility built 1994 (264 inmates); cells progressively double-bunked 2017–2020
- Current rated capacity330 inmates (county site); Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory separately lists 264 rated / 242 average daily population, likely predating the 2017–2020 double-bunking
- PREAFirst adult detention facility in Idaho to become PREA-compliant (November 2016); recertified after audits in Dec. 2019 and Nov. 2023
Source: Bannock County — Sheriff's Office & Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1994 (current facility); an earlier jail on the site was built in 1955
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byCounty (Bannock County Sheriff's Office)
- Beds330 (current rated capacity per county site, after cell double-bunking through 2020); 264 originally in 1994
Since then
- Cells double-bunked in stages: June 2017 (10 cells, C-Pod Female), January 2018 (10 cells, D-Pod), July 2019 (8 cells, C-Pod), December 2019 (16 cells), February 2020 (16 cells, D-Pod)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tony Manu
- Runs the jailYes — the Bannock County Sheriff's Office operates the Bannock County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Code Title 20 Ch. 6 makes the sheriff jailer. Manu was elected in November 2020 after 28 years as a deputy, joining the Office in 1992
- Office/jail location5800 S. 5th Avenue, Pocatello, ID 83204
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Bannock County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho's District Court serves the judicial district (Bannock is in the Sixth Judicial District, with Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, and Power 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.
Sixth Judicial District Court — Administrative District Judge
- Hon. Javier Gabiola
- 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.
- Jail roster is distributed through the county's own 'Sheriff's App' (Google Play / Apple App Store) rather than a standalone webpage; the county's jail-roster page directs visitors to download the app.
- The jail page references Access Corrections (commissary/inmate trust deposits) and Securus (video visitation) as vendors but does not publish a rate schedule on the county's own site.
- Bannock County Board of Commissioners — three members elected at-large by district to staggered two- and four-year terms; no individual commissioner names were published on the general 'About' page checked
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bannock 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