The Detention Center
Payette County Detention Facility
- Operated byPayette County Sheriff's Office
- Address1130 3rd Avenue North, Payette (at the Payette County Courthouse)
- Beds72-bed facility
- Built / expandedOriginal 26-bed facility built 1972; a $1.95 million jail bond passed February 1999 funded expansion/renovation to the current 72-bed, ~12,756 sq ft facility
- Bail/bond optionsCash Bond, Personal Recognizance Bond, Book and Release, and Sentences — all described on the facility's page
Source: Payette County – Detention Facility (Wayback Machine capture, 2019-07-20, the most recent successfully archived version; live site blocked researchers with a CAPTCHA/bot check) · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1972 (original 26-bed facility); expanded 1999
- Original cost$1.95 million jail bond (1999 expansion)
- Paid for by1999 voter-approved jail bond
- Beds72
Since then
- 1999 expansion/renovation adding beds, laundry, kitchen, cafeteria/multi-purpose area, medical exam/breath-testing room, visitation and attorney/client rooms
The Sheriff
Sheriff Andy Creech
- Office address1130 3rd Ave. N. Rm. 101, Payette, ID 83661
- Office phone(208) 642-6006
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Payette County – Sheriff (Wayback Machine capture, 2026-07-02) · 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. No judge names for Payette County were found on the county's own site.
District Court / Magistrate Court
- Not found — no dedicated courts page located on payettecounty.org
- 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 payettecounty.org site returned a CAPTCHA/bot-verification challenge (SiteGround captcha) on every page checked during this research; all Payette County content above was verified via Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) captures of the county's own URLs, per the brief's rule that only opened sources may be cited.
- Inmate telephone provider is named as Tel-mate, but no specific per-minute or per-call rate was published on the pages found.
- Three-member elected Board of County Commissioners: Commissioner Kelso (District 1), Commissioner Riebe (District 2), Commissioner Bishop (District 3); first names not published on the page found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Payette 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