The Detention Center
Custer County Jail
- Operated byCuster County Sheriff's Office
- Address130 S. 9th St. / PO Box 344, Challis, ID 83226 (same address as the Sheriff's Office)
- Beds8 (per Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory; not stated on the county's own site)
- What was triedcustercountyidaho.org departments, sheriff, and commissioners pages checked; no dedicated jail page or capacity/budget/PREA/inspections/contracts/bond/fee info found on the county's own site
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 byNot found
- Beds8 (Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory, not confirmed on county's own site)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Levi Maydole
- Runs the jailYes — site states the sheriff is responsible for 'operating the county jail'
- How the office is filledElected; appointed to the role in April 2024 per the Idaho Sheriffs' Association, then serves as elected sheriff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Custer County, Idaho — Sheriff's Office · 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 courts page confirms Custer County is in the Seventh Judicial District but does not name current judges (only clerk staff).
Seventh Judicial 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Board of County Commissioners, three districts (Randy Corgatelli, Chairman; Will Naillon, Vice Chairman; Gordon Vaden); meets 2nd and 4th Monday of each month, some sessions rotating to Mackay and Stanley.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Custer 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