Minidoka County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byMinidoka County Sheriff's Office (per Idaho Code §31-2202, cited on the county's site)
• What was triedChecked the county's Departments list (/148/Departments) and the Sheriff page (/191/Sheriff) — there is no separate Jail or Detention department page, and no jail name, address, capacity, or budget is published. The Sheriff's Office is located at 724 H Street, Rupert, ID 83350, which may or may not be the jail's location.

Source: Minidoka County, ID — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24

• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Minidoka 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 Dave C. Pinther

• Runs the jailStatutory duty per Idaho Code §31-2202, cited on the county's Sheriff page: 'Take charge of and keep the county jail and the prisoners therein.' No dedicated jail/detention page exists on the county's site (see jail entry).
• How the office is filledElected

Source: Minidoka 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.

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 →