The Detention Center
Valley County Detention Center
- Operated byValley County Sheriff's Office
- Address107 W. Spring Street, PO Box 1350, Cascade, ID 83611
- Detention supervisorDetention Sergeant Ryan Nelson (county site); the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory names the jail administrator as Michael Lacroix
- Rated capacity63, average daily population 26 — published by the Idaho Sheriffs' Association, not by the county
- Remote visit rate20 cents per minute, maximum 10 remote visits per inmate per week
- Year built / cost / fundingNot found — checked the county Jail page, Detention Facility FAQ and Sheriff's Office page
Source: Valley County Detention Facility · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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
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 on the county's own site; the Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory gives a rated capacity of 63 and an average daily population of 26
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kevin Copperi
- Runs the jailYes — the Valley County Detention Center is a division of the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected (Idaho Code Title 20 Chapter 6 places the county jail under the sheriff)
- Detention supervisor named on the county siteDetention Sergeant Ryan Nelson
- Source conflictThe Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory still lists Valley County's sheriff as Patti Bolen; the county's own site names Kevin Copperi and carries 2026-dated documents, so the county site is used here
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Valley County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Valley County sits in Idaho's Fourth Judicial District, as stated on the county Court Clerk's Office page. Idaho District Court judges are elected and face retention; magistrate judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then stand for retention election. Either way they are state judicial officers, not county officials. No judge names were published on any Valley County page that could be opened.
Magistrate Court — Valley County
- 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
- Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail inspections are voluntary, not statutory, and the reports are not public, so state_inspection is recorded as blank. Idaho also has no statute requiring a jail death to be reported to anyone.
- prea is marked yes because the county's PREA page publishes a '2021 Valley PREA Report' and a '2021 Valley County Annual Data Sheet'. These are the county's own PREA data documents, not an external PREA auditor's certification — no third-party audit report was found.
- fees is marked yes on the strength of one published rate: the Detention Facility FAQ states remote video visits cost 20 cents per minute. Commissary and phone-call rates are not published; calls are routed through Inmatesales.com.
- roster: no inmate roster is published on the county site. The Sheriff's Office links to VINELink, which is a third-party notification service and does not count as county publication.
- budget: https://www.co.valley.id.us/departments/CountyCommissioners/BudgetAudits was opened and carried no budget documents in the retrieved page content.
- URLs opened for this county: /departments/, /departments/SheriffsOffice, /departments/Jail, /DetentionFacilityFAQ, /departments/Jail/PREA, /departments/CountyCommissioners, /departments/CountyCommissioners/BudgetAudits, /departments/CourtClerksOffice, /SheriffPRR, and the Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory.
- Board of County Commissioners — Katlin Caldwell (District 1), Sherry Maupin (District 2, Chairman), Neal Thompson (District 3). Idaho counties are governed by a three-member Board of County Commissioners. No dedicated jail tax or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Valley 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