The Detention Center
Elmore County Jail (Elmore County Detention Center)
- Operated byElmore County Sheriff's Office
- Address2255 East 8th North, Mountain Home, ID 83647
- Beds127 (per Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory; not stated on the county's own jail page)
- Visitation3 free onsite visits per week; remote video visitation via inmatesales.com
- Work release fee$25 per day; $175 advance payment for first 7 days
- Bond fee$10 Sheriff's Bond fee attached to each bond; bonds payable via bond agent, cash, or Allpaid
Source: Elmore County, Idaho — Elmore County Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗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
- Beds127 (Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory, not confirmed on county's own site)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mike Hollinshead
- Runs the jailYes — the Elmore County Sheriff's Office operates the Elmore 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: Elmore County, Idaho — Elmore County Sheriff · 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.
District Court — District Judge
- Theodore Fleming
Magistrate Court
- Brent Ferguson
- Brian Peterson
- 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
- The jail page publishes a $25/day work-release fee and a $10 bond fee, but not a phone/video/commissary rate schedule, so 'fees' is marked no.
- Board of County Commissioners, three districts (Bud Corbus, Crystal Rogers, Al Hofer).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Elmore 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