Power County, Idaho — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Power County Jail (Power County Detention Division)

Operated byPower County Sheriff's Office
Mailing addressPower County Detention Division, 550 Gifford Avenue, American Falls, Idaho 83211
Bond fee$10 bond fee for every bond posted, separate from the bond amount
Cash bond cost exampleBond amount plus a non-refundable $10 Sheriff's fee
Surety bond cost example10% of bond amount, plus a $35 surety bond fee and a $10 Sheriff's fee
Medical feeUnder Idaho Code 20-619, an inmate may be charged $20 per non-emergency medical visit

Source: Power County, ID – Power County Jail · 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 — 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Power 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

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Josh Campbell

Office address550 Gifford Street, American Falls, ID 83211
Office phone208-226-2311

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Power County, ID – Sheriff's Office · 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.

District Court

Rick Carnaroli

Magistrate Court

Not found — page lists only a general contact, no named judge

Still needed

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

Inmate phone/commissary provider is named as Telmate on the jail page, but no specific per-minute, per-call, or commissary item rates were published.
An Annual Audits page exists (https://www.powercounty.gov/220/Annual-Audits) but was not confirmed to itemize a corrections/detention line, so 'budget' is recorded as no.
Three-member elected Board of County Commissioners: Jason Povey (District 1), Kryst Krein (District 2), Chris Fehringer (District 3, Chairman).

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Power 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