The Detention Center
None as of January 1, 2026 — Teton County no longer holds its own inmates
- Operated byNot applicable
- Where prisoners goAs of January 1, 2026, all Teton County inmates are housed at the Madison County Jail in Rexburg, Idaho, per the Teton County Sheriff's Office's own site
- Bonding contactFor bonding or related questions, contact the Teton County Sheriff's Office at (208) 776-8223
Source: Teton County Sheriff's Office – Jail/Inmate Information · checked 2026-08-24
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot applicable — no county jail as of January 1, 2026
- Original costNot applicable
- Paid for byNot applicable
- BedsNot applicable
Since then
- Not applicable
The Sheriff
Sheriff Not found
- What was triedChecked the Teton County Sheriff's Office homepage, its Contact/Contact TCSO page, and its Jail/Inmate Information page — none names the sitting sheriff. A staff/division-members subpage (hosted at cms3.revize.com) was blocked by a Cloudflare bot-verification challenge and could not be read.
- Non-emergency line(208) 776-8200
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Teton County 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. No judge names for Teton County were found on the county's own sites.
District Court / Magistrate Court
- Not found — no courts or judges page located on tetoncountyidaho.gov or tetoncountysheriff.com
- 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
- Teton County discontinued housing its own inmates as of January 1, 2026, per the Sheriff's Office's own site; prisoners are now held at the Madison County Jail in Rexburg, Idaho. This is recorded per the brief's instruction rather than treated as a gap.
- 'named' is marked no because the site names where prisoners are held (Madison County Jail) rather than naming a Teton County jail of its own.
- Three-member elected Board of County Commissioners, each elected county-wide from one of three districts: Brad Wolfe (Chair, District 1), Dan Powers (District 2), Ron James (District 3).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Teton 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