The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- What was triedChecked the Lewis County Sheriff's Office page (lists Sheriff Jason Davis, Chief Deputy Mark Pagliaro, and Lead Dispatch Supervisor Rhonda Beauchamp) and the full site navigation/page list — no jail, detention, or in-custody page exists on the county's own site. Also checked the county Commissioners and Auditor/District Court pages — no mention of a jail. A Lewiston Tribune headline referencing a Lewis County 'jail pact' with Nez Perce County was found in search results but the article itself returned a 403 error and could not be opened, so it is not cited.
- NoteIdaho has roughly 37 of 44 counties operating a jail; Lewis County (population ~3,500) may be one of the smaller counties that holds no prisoners and contracts elsewhere, but this could not be confirmed from a source that could actually be opened.
Source: Lewis County, ID — Sheriff · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jason Davis
- Runs the jailNot found — the Sheriff's Office page does not mention a jail or detention facility (see jail entry)
- How the office is filledElected
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lewis County, ID — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho has a District Court for the judicial district and a Magistrate Court. District judges are elected in district-wide nonpartisan elections; Magistrate judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face a retention election. Both are state judicial officers, not county officials. Lewis County's District Court page states 'Additional Information will be added to this page in the near future' and names no judges.
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
- Commissioners identified from the county's Commissioners page: Mike Tornatore (District 1), Justin McLeod (District 2, Chairman), Eric Hasselstrom (District 3) — http://www.lewiscountyid.us/Elected-Officials/Commissioners.
- Lewis County's own site (lewiscountyid.us) is reachable only over HTTP in this session — HTTPS presented a certificate for *.co.nezperce.id.us and failed to verify, so all Lewis County citations here use the http:// URL that was actually opened.
- Whether Lewis County operates its own jail, or where its prisoners are held, could not be confirmed from a source that could be opened directly; this is recorded as a real finding, not assumed either way.
- Board of County Commissioners (three-member, elected by district)
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lewis 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