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Elmore County Jail Overview

The official Elmore County Jail page is the local source for the jail roster notice, visitation rules, mail limits, bond instructions, deposits, care packages, and VINE custody-notification link. The facility is operated by the Elmore County Sheriff's Office at the sheriff and detention center complex in Mountain Home. It is a county jail, not an Idaho Department of Correction prison, so the Elmore County Jail inmate lookup process focuses on people held before trial, people serving county jail time, people approved for jail work release, and detainees held under documented federal immigration use.

ICE also lists the same building as Elmore County Detention Center under the Salt Lake City Field Office. That does not create a second public facility page or a separate local jail roster. It means the same Elmore County Jail may hold county inmates and ICE detainees under different custody systems. County custody questions start with the jail. State-prison questions go to the IDOC resident/client search after sentencing and transfer. Sentenced federal custody goes to the BOP locator, while immigration-custody searches use ICE ODLS when the person is not confirmed through the county jail phone line.

The county's captured jail page is a close match for this facility page because it shows the roster-down notice and the main custody support topics. The source image below comes from Elmore County's jail information page.

The screenshot is useful because the county jail page combines the lookup fallback, visitation, mail, bond, and VINE information in one official location.

Elmore County Jail Population

Elmore County Jail has several sourced population figures, but no official live county population count was located because the public jail roster was down during research. The best supported capacity figure is 127. The 2017 PREA final audit reported a designated facility capacity of 127, a population of 121 during the October 2017 audit visit, and 1,786 admissions during the prior 12 months. Vera/BJS-derived 2019 data also listed rated capacity as 127 and total jail population as 124. Jail Data Initiative data later located a population of 76 on December 23, 2025 and a 2025 average of 94.7 through that date, but that is not the county's own live count.

These figures should be read by date. A capacity figure can stay stable while the inmate count changes each day. For current custody, the jail's own instruction controls: call the Elmore County Jail and ask staff to verify whether the person is in custody.

Lookup Elmore County Jail Custody

The current Elmore County Jail roster path is phone-first because the official jail page says the roster is down and tells users to call the jail to verify current inmate information. The historical roster URL referenced in county-hosted AllPaid material did not resolve during research. That flyer still matters because it says roster or inmate information could include charges, bond amount, and SPN, which is the person number used for some cash-bail payments. Until the county restores a live roster, a current Elmore County Jail inmate search should not rely on old links or cached lists.

1. Check the official jail page first and note whether the roster-down notice is still posted.
2. Call Elmore County Jail at 208-587-9103 for current custody status, bond status, and release holds.
3. For a formal booking record, arrest report, or photo request, use the sheriff records process through records staff.
4. Search IDOC's resident/client search when the person may have moved to state custody after sentencing.
5. Use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS only when federal or immigration custody is the likely issue.

Elmore County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the Mountain Home detention-center address listed by the county. Jail control is listed as extension 1023 through the sheriff's main number, and the jail also has the direct line shown below. Records requests use the sheriff records unit, not the search widget or a private search partner. Records staff can be reached by phone extension, email, fax, or mail, and the records request form cites Idaho Public Records Act review timing.

Dispatch and non-emergency routing are separate from jail records. The sheriff page lists dispatch at 208-587-2100. Use that number for non-emergency law-enforcement contact, not for a public-records request that belongs with the records unit.

Elmore County Jail Visits

Elmore County Jail uses onsite and remote video visitation. Visitors may set up an account through InmateSales or through the jail lobby kiosk. The jail recommends scheduling at least 24 hours in advance, but the research notes that advance scheduling is recommended rather than required. Inmates receive 3 free onsite visits each week. Onsite visits are conducted on kiosks behind door 6 of the jail lobby, and personal visits are subject to monitoring and recording.

The video-visit login shown in the manifest is matched to Elmore County Jail because the county jail page links that service. The source screenshot comes from the InmateSales visitation portal.

The portal image supports the visitation section, but the jail remains the source for local rules such as door 6 kiosk use and free onsite visit counts.

Remote and onsite conduct rules are strict. The jail bars third-party participation, nudity, explicit sexual behavior, threats, identity misrepresentation, and disruptive conduct. Children cannot be left unattended in the lobby, vehicles, or detention grounds. Violations can end a visit at once and can lead to a temporary suspension.

Elmore County Jail Mail and Money

Mail to Elmore County Jail must show the inmate's full name on the envelope and the sender's complete return address. The jail rejects mail with tape, stickers, attachments, musical or electronic cards, Polaroid photos, nude photos, extra stamps, paper, envelopes, perfume, cologne, or chemical sprays. Extra letters from other people are not allowed, except children's letters. Paperback books and magazines must come directly from a publisher or retail outlet and must be mailed from that distributor.

The deposit screenshot is matched to Elmore County Jail because the jail links JailATM for inmate money. The source image comes from the JailATM web-deposits portal.

The portal can handle deposits, but the jail's local mail rules and commissary eligibility still control what an inmate may receive or buy.

Elmore County Jail Bond

Bond at Elmore County Jail is local and exact. The jail page says cash bond may be posted in exact change or through a bond agent. A separate $10 Sheriff's Bond fee applies to each bond and must also be paid in exact change. Detention staff does not keep change for either the bond amount or the sheriff's fee. Release starts after detention staff receives the bond paperwork and/or court release order, and the jail warns that release can take a considerable amount of time.

County-hosted AllPaid material gives a card-payment option for cash bail. It lists Pay Location Code a005od, a 5 percent service fee, a $10,000 cash-bail card-payment limit, and a need for the defendant name or SPN. The Sheriff's Office does not receive the 5 percent fee. Because the same flyer pointed users to roster or inmate information for charges, bond amount, and SPN, call the jail when the roster is down before trying to pay.

Cash bond

Money posted to secure court appearance. It may later be applied to fines, costs, or other amounts after court resolution.

Surety bond

A bond posted through a bond agent or surety, rather than full cash paid at the jail.

SPN

A person number referenced by Elmore County's AllPaid flyer for cash-bail payment identification.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency, such as immigration, parole, or another jurisdiction, that may affect release.

Elmore County Jail Booking

Booking at Elmore County Jail begins when a person is brought to the jail after an arrest, warrant, court order, or other custody transfer. The public county pages do not publish a full intake checklist, so the accurate public record path is narrower: the county-hosted AllPaid flyer confirms that local custody and bond workflows use charges, bond amount, and SPN, while the jail page confirms bond posting, release processing, visit access, mail, VINE, and the roster-down phone fallback.

For court timing after arrest, Idaho Criminal Rule 5 requires an arrested defendant to be taken before a magistrate without unreasonable delay and no later than 24 hours after arrest, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. That first appearance belongs to the court process, not to a jail roster alone. Custody status may still remain with Elmore County Jail while the case moves through the clerk, prosecutor, bond, and hearing steps. A person sentenced to state prison later moves into the IDOC locator path, and the county jail may no longer be the main record source.

For custody-notification support, the jail page links Idaho VINE and lists the toll-free VINE number as 1-866-984-6343. VINE is useful for release or transfer notice, but direct jail contact is still the best route for a same-day custody check.

Elmore County Jail ICE Use

ICE records identify Elmore County Detention Center as the same Elmore County Jail at the same Mountain Home address. ICE material says the jail opened in 1990, began housing ERO detainees in 2009, and used a USMS intergovernmental agreement. The 2023 ICE text described male and female ICE detainees at low, medium, medium-high, and high classification levels for periods greater than 72 hours. Classification means the facility's custody-risk assessment for housing and security, not a criminal conviction level.

The source screenshot below is matched to this facility because it shows the ICE detention-facility listing that includes Elmore County Detention Center. It comes from ICE's detention-facility listing page.

The ICE listing helps explain federal use of the county jail, while county inmates and immigration detainees may still require different lookup channels.

ICE Office of Detention Oversight material also adds a caution. The 2024 ODO special review said ODO attempted an on-site review on August 20-22, 2024, assigned a failure, and recommended that ERO discontinue use until Elmore County Jail permits and passes a full compliance inspection. That finding does not replace the county's custody-verification process. It is oversight context for federal use of the same jail.

About Elmore County Jail

Elmore County Jail is the only detention facility confirmed in the Elmore County facility map. No separate city jail, county work-release annex, regional jail, BOP facility, or IDOC prison was confirmed by official sources as a distinct detention facility in Elmore County. The county jail page does discuss work release, including the jail's ability to deny or remove an inmate from the program for disciplinary reports, intoxication, employer complaints, leaving or quitting a job without approval, criminal activity, jail-rule violations, work-release rule violations, or conduct that threatens safety or security.

For a broad county custody overview, the Elmore County inmate population page separates dated population sources from current lookup channels. For a narrower roster and records workflow, Elmore County jail inmate records explains phone verification, records requests, VINE, IDOC, BOP, and ICE routing.