The Detention Center
Caribou County Jail (Caribou County Detention and Jail)
- Operated byCaribou County Sheriff's Office
- Address475 East 2nd South, Soda Springs, ID 83276
- Beds49
- Security levelsMinimum, medium and maximum security; houses local, contract-county, and Idaho Department of Correction inmates
- PREAPage publishes PREA compliance and sexual-assault-reporting resources
- What was tried for cost/year built/fundingSheriff's Office site and county departments page checked; not published
Source: Caribou County Sheriff — Detention and Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds49
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff J. Adam Mabey
- Runs the jailYes — the Caribou County Sheriff's Office operates the Caribou County Jail
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Code Title 20 Chapter 6 places the sheriff in charge of the county jail
- 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 District Court judges and Magistrate judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. Magistrate judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face a retention election. The county's own site confirms a Magistrate & District Court operates locally but does not publish current judges' names.
District Court
- Not found
Magistrate Court
- Not found
- 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
- Facility holds contract inmates from other Idaho counties and IDOC, but no contract rates are published on the county site, so 'contracts' is marked no.
- Commissary is handled via CorrectPay with a stated $500 max balance, but no phone/video/commissary rate schedule is published, so 'fees' is marked no.
- Board of County Commissioners (three members), per the county's departments page.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Caribou 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