Boundary County, Idaho — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Boundary County Jail

Operated byBoundary County Sheriff's Office
Mailing addressP.O. Box 127, Bonners Ferry, ID 83805
What was triedhttps://www.boundarysheriff.org/ (official sheriff site returned only metadata/navigation, no detention detail retrievable), https://www.idahosheriffs.org/jail-services/directory-of-idahos-jails/

Source: Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Boundary County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Travis Stolley

Runs the jailYes, per the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory listing a Boundary County Jail
How the office is filledElected; Idaho Sheriffs' Association lists him as elected 2016

Still needed

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 judges are state officers, not county officials. District Court judges serve the judicial district; Magistrate Court judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face retention election. No judge names were found on sources checked for this county.

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 2026-08-24

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

The Boundary County Sheriff's official site (boundarysheriff.org) loaded only bare metadata in this session — no navigation, jail, or commissioner content could be retrieved from it.
No official county government (non-sheriff) domain for Boundary County was located; commissioners, courts, and most jail details are recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
Not found — no official Boundary County government (non-sheriff) site was reachable in this session

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Boundary 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