Jefferson County

The Detention Center

Jefferson County Jail

• Operated byJefferson County Sheriff's Office
• PREAThe county publishes a 2025 PREA Annual Report and a separate 2023 PREA audit document (linked on the jail page under the label '2023 Idaho Jail Standards')
• PREA coordinatorLieutenant Powell (208-745-9210); reports can also go to the Bonneville County PREA Coordinator or the Family Crisis Center in Rexburg
• What was triedChecked the Jail page, the Government page, and the county Staff Directory — no capacity, roster, budget, or bond/fee schedule was found published

Source: Jefferson County, ID — Jail page · checked 2026-08-24

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗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
• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Jefferson County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Steve Anderson

• Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office operates the Jefferson County Jail (Idaho Code Title 20, Chapter 6)
• How the office is filledElected

Source: Jefferson County Staff Directory — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24

The Judges

Idaho has a District Court for the judicial district and a Magistrate Court. Magistrate judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face a retention election; both are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county's Courts directory entry gives contact information but does not name sitting judges or state the judicial district number.

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 →