The Detention Center
Bingham County Jail
- Operated byBingham County Sheriff's Office
- Address501 North Maple, #405, Blackfoot, ID 83221
- Rated capacity (ISA jail directory)102 rated / 95 average daily population
- Jail administratorLt. Darrell Fellows, per the Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory (not confirmed on the county's own site)
- What was triedThe county's historic domain co.bingham.id.us returns a broken TLS certificate (points to a CloudFront distribution whose certificate does not match the hostname) and could not be reached. The current official site, binghamid.gov, confirmed the Sheriff's Department page exists (title: 'Bingham County Idaho - Sheriff's Department Home Page') but its content is loaded dynamically by JavaScript and no jail-specific text could be retrieved through an automated fetch.
Source: Idaho Sheriffs' Association — Directory of Idaho's Jails · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 — 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 (Bingham County Sheriff's Office)
- Beds102 rated capacity — Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory (not confirmed on the county's own site)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jeff Gardner
- Runs the jailYes — the Bingham County Sheriff's Office operates the Bingham County Jail
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Code Title 20 Ch. 6 makes the sheriff jailer
- Office location501 North Maple Street, Blackfoot, ID 83221
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Idaho Sheriffs' Association — Meet Idaho's Sheriffs · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho's District Court serves the judicial district (Bingham is in the Seventh Judicial District, with Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison, and Teton 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.
Seventh Judicial District Court — Administrative District Judge
- Steven W. Boyce
- 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 →
Notes on the record
- Bingham County's historic web domain (co.bingham.id.us), still the address listed in the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory and by the Idaho 7th Judicial District's own site as of research, currently fails TLS certificate validation and could not be reached. The county's current working site is binghamid.gov, but its Sheriff's Department page renders its content via JavaScript, so none of the ten transparency checks could be verified against actual page content — each is recorded 'no' as not-found rather than as a confirmed absence.
- 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.
- Bingham County Board of Commissioners — individual commissioner names were not confirmed; the county's official site (binghamid.gov) uses JavaScript-driven navigation menus and its department subpages did not return static, extractable content through the automated fetches attempted
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bingham 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