The Detention Center
No county jail — Franklin County contracts with the Caribou County Detention Center
- Operated byCaribou County Sheriff's Office (Caribou County operates the facility Franklin County uses)
- Where prisoners goFranklin County's own Sheriff's Office page states prisoners are housed at the Caribou County Detention Center and links to Caribou's detention page
- Caribou facility address (for reference)475 East 2nd South, Soda Springs, ID 83276
- What was triedfranklincountyidaho.org departments and sheriff's office pages checked; no separate Franklin County jail facility, budget, PREA, inspection, contract-rate, or fee information found
Source: Franklin County, Idaho — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
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 applicable — Franklin County operates no jail of its own
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Cuyler Stoker
- Runs the jailFranklin County has no jail of its own; the Sheriff's Office houses prisoners at the Caribou County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected in 2024; Idaho Code Title 20 Chapter 6 places the sheriff in charge of county detention arrangements
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Franklin 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.
District Court — District Judge
- Robert C. Naftz
Magistrate Court
- Eric S. Hunn
- 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
- Franklin County is one of the counties without its own jail; its own Sheriff's Office site names where prisoners are held (Caribou County Detention Center), which is recorded here rather than treated as a gap, per the brief.
- Board of County Commissioners, three districts (Zan Bowles, Robert Swainston, Zachary Stewart).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Franklin 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