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Idaho County Jail Overview

The Idaho County Jail Division is operated by the Idaho County Sheriff's Office and serves as the county jail for Grangeville and the wider county. The official jail page names Lieutenant Richard Knutson as the jail contact and describes the facility as administered by the Office of the Idaho County Sheriff. The separate sheriff page names Sheriff Doug Ulmer as the county sheriff. This matters for records routing: the jail handles custody, visits, mail, inmate accounts, and day-to-day confinement, while sheriff records and county public-records channels handle written requests for reports or jail records not shown on the public list.

The jail holds male and female individuals charged with state or local offenses, people serving short county jail sentences, people awaiting sentencing, people in custody on warrants or probation violations, and some people whose entries show they have been sentenced to IDOC. That last status is a search clue, not proof that the person is housed at North Idaho Correctional Institution. The county jail roster is the first lookup for current Idaho County Jail custody, while IDOC Resident/Client Search is the state system for people under Idaho Department of Correction jurisdiction.

The Idaho County Jail Division page is the source for the local facility facts shown below.

The county page ties the jail's address, staffing, capacity, average daily population, visiting information, VINE notice, and PREA reporting channel to the same local custody operation.

Idaho County Jail Capacity

The official jail page says the building was built in 1954 and is staffed by one chief jailer and seven detention officers. It also says the jail houses a maximum of 11 individuals, male and female, while the average number of inmates per day is presently 18. Those two figures should be read carefully. They come from the same county source, but they do not by themselves prove a legal overcrowding finding. They do show why Idaho County Jail capacity is a central local fact for any inmate population search in this county.

The county also reports an average cost of $138.00 per day to house an inmate. The jail page cites Idaho Code Section 20-607 and states that Idaho County bills inmates $25 per calendar day to offset incarceration costs. A 2022 county RFQ sought architectural services for a proposed new Jail/Sheriff's Office Complex with a 30 to 50 bed jail, command center, possible regional dispatch center, sheriff administration, licensing functions, and attorney-client or interview rooms. The research did not confirm that a replacement jail has been built, so the 1954 facility facts remain the controlling jail-page facts here.

Idaho County Jail Roster Lookup

The official Idaho County Current Inmate List is the county jail lookup channel. It is not a searchable database. It is a static current list on the county site, free to view and available without a login. Entries observed in the research showed a booking-photo-style image, the person's name in last-name-first format, a charge or custody-status summary, and a bond value. The page does not show booking numbers, dates of birth, court case numbers, arresting agency, housing unit, court dates, release dates, or profile pages.

The official current list is the subject-matched source for Idaho County Jail roster searches.

The screenshot reinforces the key user point: this is a current list to browse, not a roster portal with fields and filters.

1. Open the Idaho County Current Inmate List from the Sheriff's Office or Jail Division pages.
2. Use the browser Find command to search a last name, since the page has no search box.
3. Read the entry beside the image for name, charge or status text, and bond notation.
4. Call 208-983-1123 if the person is not listed, if the booking may be very recent, or if a bond note needs confirmation.
5. Search IDOC Resident/Client Search if the county entry says "Sentenced to IDOC" or if the person has left local jail custody.

Idaho County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office use the courthouse complex address in Grangeville. The jail phone is the direct channel for current custody, visiting questions, PREA reporting, and basic facility process questions. The sheriff's main number is useful for sheriff records or routing, and the Records Division is the formal fallback when a booking, arrest, or incident record is not published online. The Records Division page says records staff cannot release reports to the public without first receiving a written request, and some information filed with the Sheriff's Office cannot be accessed while cases are pending adjudication through the courts.

Idaho County Jail Visits

Idaho County's official jail pages conflict on weekday visiting hours. The Jail Division page lists Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Saturday from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The Jail FAQ lists Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM and Saturdays from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Both sources say an inmate must be in Idaho County custody for five days before visits are allowed. Because the weekday hours differ, call the jail before traveling, especially from Kooskia, Riggins, White Bird, Elk City, or other parts of the county.

Use the Idaho County Jail FAQ as the source for the five-day custody rule, mail limits, Inmate Canteen link, and bond-card note.

The FAQ is especially useful because it gives visitor timing and several rules that do not appear on the public roster itself.

Idaho County Jail Mail

Jail mail should be addressed to the inmate in care of Idaho County Jail at the Grangeville address. The envelope must show the full name and address of both sender and recipient. The county says correspondence without both addresses will not be given to the inmate. Correspondence must be in English unless the writer's primary language is not English. The rules are detailed, so do not assume that ordinary cards, photos, or publications will pass review.

Idaho County lists several prohibited mail items, including Polaroids, photos larger than 5x7, stickers or tape in or on envelopes, pornography, publications about making weapons, bombs, explosives, drugs, or alcohol, gang-related materials, coded messages, cards larger than 8x10, laminated cards, and gang-related drawings, photos, or copies. Books, magazines, and newspapers require pre-approval by the Jail Commander and must be sent directly from a publisher or vendor. The FAQ also says tobacco is not allowed and necessary hygiene items are provided by the jail.

Idaho County Jail Booking

Idaho County does not publish a full booking manual, but the public list and jail page show the main custody path. A person arrested by the sheriff, city police, Idaho State Police, or another agency may be brought to the Idaho County Jail when local custody is required. Jail staff create the custody record, control property, take or maintain a booking-photo-style image, and add the person to the current list if the county publishes the entry. The roster line may show a charge phrase, "Arrest Warrant," "Probation Violation," "Awaiting Sentencing," "Serving Time," or "Sentenced to IDOC."

A roster charge is not the same as a court conviction. Formal charges, hearing dates, bond conditions, and case outcomes move through the Idaho County District Court and the Idaho iCourt portal after filing. If the current list does not show the record needed, use the jail phone for custody status and a written records request for copies of records that can be released. VINE can be used for release or transfer notification when safety notification is the goal.

Idaho County Jail Records

The Idaho County Records Division names Mandee Mignerey as Records Clerk and gives the sheriff main number with extension 2. The records page says records staff perform data entry, track cases as officers' reports and information come in, and provide information to the prosecuting attorney when appropriate. It also states that reports cannot be released to the public without a written request first. For booking records, arrest reports, incident reports, non-current mugshot requests, or other records outside the current list, a written Idaho County public-records request is the strongest documented fallback.

The county form asks for the requester's name, date, email, phone, mailing address, Idaho residency status, a specific description of the records, date range, geographic area or address, copy or inspection preference, and a certification signature. Idaho County's form includes fee and response-time language, while Idaho Attorney General guidance reports newer statewide response windows as of July 1, 2024. For custody notification rather than copies, use VINELink Idaho. Idaho County Jail states it participates in VINE so victims and other registrants can be notified when an inmate is released or transferred. Federal sentenced custody uses the BOP locator, and immigration custody uses ICE ODLS; neither system is the Idaho County Jail roster.

About Idaho County Jail

The jail page says Idaho County Jail's mission is to lawfully detain people charged with violations of state and applicable laws and to maintain health, safety, and well-being with nutritional diet and adequate medical care. It states that inmates are treated without regard to race, gender, religion, age, or social status. PREA reporting is available through jail staff at 208-983-1123, and the Sheriff's Office states a zero-tolerance standard for sexual misconduct and sexual assault in the jail.

Program details are more limited. The county did not publish a jail GED program, work-release list, substance-use treatment schedule, tablet program, religious-services schedule, or detailed grievance procedure in the researched jail pages. That lack of public detail should not be filled from other counties. Confirm program, medical-request, attorney-visit, and classification details directly with jail staff. For people who are sentenced to state custody or whose county entry points toward IDOC, the correct next search is the statewide IDOC locator, not North Idaho Correctional Institution unless IDOC specifically lists that facility.