The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- What was triedThe live site (lincolncountyid.gov) returned HTTP 403 from a Cloudflare bot-challenge on every page checked (home, /sheriff, /commissioners) and could not be read directly. Used the Wayback Machine's archived captures instead: the Jan. 20, 2026 homepage capture and the Feb. 1, 2025 Sheriff page capture. Neither lists a jail, detention, or in-custody department in the site's Government/Departments navigation, and the Sheriff page text (Concealed Weapons, Offender Watch, Paper Service, Employment) makes no mention of a jail.
- NoteThird-party inmate-lookup sites describe a 'Lincoln County Jail' at 111 W B St / 115 W A St, Shoshone (the same address as the Sheriff's Office), but those sites are not the county's own site or a state association and were not cited.
Source: Lincoln County, ID — Sheriff (Wayback Machine capture, Feb. 1, 2025) · 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 René King
- Runs the jailNot found — no jail/detention page found on the county's own site (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: Lincoln County, ID — Sheriff (Wayback Machine capture, Feb. 1, 2025) · 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.
Fifth Judicial District — District Court
- Ned C. Williamson
Magistrate Court
- Cheri L. Hicks
- 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 live lincolncountyid.gov site blocked every direct request in this session with a Cloudflare 403 challenge; all Lincoln County findings here come from Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) captures of the county's own pages, dated where cited. This is noted as a methodology limitation, not as the county failing to publish.
- Commissioners per the Feb. 3, 2025 archived Commissioners page: Tim Ridinger (District 1), Rebecca Wood (District 2), Nathan Schutte (District 3). Given the 18-month-old capture, current officeholders should be verified independently.
- No jail/detention section exists in the site's navigation in either the Feb. 2025 or Jan. 2026 captures checked.
- Board of County Commissioners (three-member, elected by district)
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Lincoln 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