The Detention Center
Canyon County Detention Center
- Operated byCanyon County Sheriff's Office
- Address219 N. 12th Ave., Caldwell, ID 83605
- Also known asIdaho Sheriffs' Association directory lists it as the "Dale Haile Detention Center" — that name was not found on the county's own site
- StaffingOver 70 deputies, nine corporals, and six sergeants in the Inmate Control unit; medical office of nine nurses and one doctor
- Food service contractABL Management, Inc. has provided food services since 2011, stated to save approximately $400,000 per year
- Inmate programsSheriff's Inmate Labor Detail (S.I.L.D.), Intensive Community Supervision, Pre-Trial Release; S.I.L.D. generated about 28,248 labor hours in 2023
- VisitationVideo-only via CTel; 60 minutes free weekly, $0.20/minute for additional remote visits
- FeesCommissary limit $75/week; medical visit clinical fee $10; S.I.L.D. monthly fee $25, reschedule fee $10, no-show fee $25
- Compliance documents published2021 PREA Audit Final Report, 2021 PREA Certificate of Compliance, 2017 PREA audit report, and a 2023-2024 Idaho Jail Standards Certificate of Compliance
Source: Canyon County — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
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 — capacity/daily population figures were not published on the page checked
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kieran Donahue
- Runs the jailYes — the Canyon County Sheriff's Office operates the Canyon County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Sheriffs' Association lists him as elected 2012
- Office location1203 Albany St, Caldwell, ID 83605 — (208) 454-7510
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Canyon County — Sheriff · 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.
- 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
- Canyon County's detention center page publishes both a 2021 PREA Certificate of Compliance and a 2023-2024 Idaho Jail Standards Certificate of Compliance. Idaho has no statutory adult jail inspection body, and the Idaho Sheriffs' Association's inspection program is generally described as voluntary and not public — but this county has chosen to publish its own compliance certificates, which is recorded here as the 'inspections' check rather than in state_inspection, per the brief's instruction to record state_inspection as blank for Idaho.
- The food-services contract with ABL Management, Inc. (since 2011) is a vendor contract, not a contract to hold other agencies' prisoners, so it was not counted toward the 'contracts' check.
- No jail capacity/beds, budget, death-in-custody, or bond/bail guidance was found published on the county's own site in the pages checked.
- District 1: Leslie Van Beek; District 2: Brad Holton; District 3: Zach Brooks. Office at 1115 Albany Street, Room 101, Caldwell, ID 83605
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Canyon 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