The Detention Center
Nez Perce County Adult Detention Center
- Operated byNez Perce County Sheriff's Office
- Address1150 Wall Street, Lewiston, ID 83501
- Jail phone208-799-3132
- Construction historyA 2002 (revised Sept. 2002) 'Jail Planning Study — Nez Perce Detention Center and Secure Treatment Facility' and a 2003 jail project report are published on the county's Adult Detention Center Financial Info page; both were opened and confirmed as real documents
- FundingThe county's Adult Detention Center Financial Info page tracks 'Sales Tax Collections by Year' alongside the jail construction project, indicating a dedicated sales tax helped fund the detention center, though the exact levy could not be fully verified from the page's dynamic content
Source: Nez Perce County — Adult Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 (2002 planning study and 2003 project report are published, but no confirmed completion/opening date)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byPartly via county sales tax per the Adult Detention Center Financial Info page (see jail facts)
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bryce Scrimsher
- Runs the jailYes — the Nez Perce County Sheriff's Office runs the Nez Perce County Adult Detention Center (Idaho Code Title 20, Chapter 6)
- 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: Nez Perce 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. Nez Perce County's District Court page gives office contact information (including a Magistrate Judges' Secretary line) but not judges' names.
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 per the county's Commissioners page: Hannah Liedkie (First District), Doug Havens (Second District), Joe Gish (Third District, Chairman) — https://www.co.nezperce.id.us/Elected-Officials/Commissioners.
- The In-Custody roster PDF (linked from the county's own In-Custody page) was opened directly and confirmed live, with a Last-Modified date of Aug. 20, 2026 — this is a genuinely current, self-published roster.
- The Adult Detention Center page publishes a PREA policy statement (zero-tolerance, reporting instructions, reciprocal third-party reporting arrangement with the Latah County Sheriff's Office) and references a 'PREA REPORT' section, but that section loads via a JavaScript file-browser widget and no actual report document could be retrieved or confirmed open in this session, so 'prea' is recorded as no.
- A one-page 'End of Year Review' PDF (https://www.co.nezperce.id.us/Portals/0/Sheriff/EndofYear/end_of_year.pdf, covering Sept. 2021–Oct. 2022) lists 'Adult Detention Center' as one of several FY2022 budget categories, alongside the Financial Info page's construction-era reports and sales-tax tracking — together these were treated as the detention budget being published, though a precise current dollar figure was not extracted.
- No commissary/phone/video-visit rate schedule, independent inspection result, death-in-custody disclosure, or bond-posting guidance page was found on the county's site.
- Board of County Commissioners (three-member, elected by district)
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Nez Perce 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