The Detention Center
None — Oneida County has no jail or holding facility
- Operated byNot applicable
- Where prisoners goOneida County currently does not have a jail or other holding facility. All incarcerated persons are taken to the Caribou County Jail in Soda Springs, ID.
- Caribou County Jail phone(208) 547-3094
Source: Oneida County, ID – Sheriff's Office, Detention · checked 2026-08-24
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot applicable — no county jail
- Original costNot applicable
- Paid for byNot applicable
- BedsNot applicable
Since then
- Not applicable
The Sheriff
Sheriff Doug Williams
- Runs the jailOneida County has no jail; see jail entry
- Office addressOneida County Courthouse (lower level), 10 Court Street, Malad City, ID 83252
- Office phone(208) 766-2251
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Oneida County, ID – Sheriff's Office Contact · 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, then face a retention election. Judges are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Magistrate Court — Magistrate Judge
- David A. Hooste
District 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
- Oneida County operates no jail of its own; the county's own site (oneidaid.us) states all incarcerated persons are taken to the Caribou County Jail in Soda Springs, ID — this is recorded per the brief's instruction rather than treated as a gap.
- A 'Revised Fee Schedule 2025' PDF is linked from the Sheriff's page (Document Center/Department/Sheriff/Revised Fee Schedule 2025.pdf) but is an image-based scan whose contents could not be verified as text, and it is a general Sheriff's Office fee schedule, not jail phone/commissary rates (Oneida has no jail).
- Three-member elected Board of County Commissioners: Bill Lewis (District 1), Ken Eliason (District 2), Brian Jeppsen (District 3). Meets 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Oneida 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