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Payette Detention Overview

Payette County Detention Facility, also called the Payette County Jail in planning documents, is operated by the Payette County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Andy Creech's office runs the county jail, dispatch, records, patrol, and several public-safety services from the courthouse campus. The facility is a county jail, not a state prison. It holds pretrial defendants awaiting court, people committed as witnesses, people confined for contempt or civil process, people sentenced to the county jail after conviction, and some state inmates when housed for Idaho Department of Correction reimbursement.

The official jail page describes a 72-bed facility. Payette County planning and assessment materials use a 69-inmate rated capacity when they discuss jail standards, crowding, and future space needs. Those two figures should be read together: the public-facing jail page gives the bed count, while the planning record uses rated capacity for inspection and housing-unit analysis. The same county materials note that separation, classification, medical needs, and housing-unit limits can make the jail crowded even when a single total headcount does not tell the full story.

Payette Facility Capacity

The most detailed Payette County inmate population figures come from the county's 2024 facilities assessment and the October 2025 jail operations analysis. The 2024 assessment listed existing detention space as 69 inmates in 10,600 square feet, needed detention space as 72 inmates in 14,400 square feet, and future planning space as 250 inmates in 50,000 square feet. The September 23, 2025 operations snapshot reported about 146 inmates with 148 charges. That number is a dated snapshot, not a standing average daily population.

The county also documented that the jail operates above rated capacity about half of the year and that failed annual inspections occurred in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Planning materials connect those findings to sight-and-sound separation limits, obsolete plumbing, exposed electrical in cells, and the difficulty of expanding a courthouse-based jail near Payette's Primary school. The future 250-inmate figure is a planning number for a possible new jail, not the present capacity of Payette County Detention Facility.

Search Payette Jail Custody

No official Payette County online jail roster, booking list, or inmate profile page was located in the county and sheriff web sources reviewed. The confirmed local path is the sheriff contact system: call Jail/Inmate Records through the Sheriff's Department contacts page at the main sheriff number and extension 1143. If the question is about jail operations, the Jail Sergeant extension is 1141. For police reports, arrest records, citations, complaints, or dispositions, the Sheriff's Records/Police Reports unit is a separate records channel.

1. Start with Jail/Inmate Records and give the person's full legal name, date of birth or age, and arrest or booking date if known.
2. Ask whether the person is currently held at Payette County Detention Facility, has been released, or has moved to another custody system.
3. If state prison, probation, or parole is involved, use the Idaho Department of Correction Resident/Client Search.
4. For a federal sentence, search the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator; for immigration custody, use ICE ODLS.

For release notification rather than a records copy, Idaho availability through VINELink may be useful. The Idaho Sheriff Connect App Store listing advertises jail information for participating sheriff offices, but Payette-specific roster behavior was not verified from the web listing. Treat the app as a supplement and keep the Payette County jail records extension as the confirmed official channel.

Payette Detention Contact

The jail sits at the Payette County courthouse campus. County footer materials list weekday courthouse public hours as 9 AM to 5 PM, but the official jail page does not publish a separate booking desk schedule. Payette County Dispatch operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and non-emergency routing uses the sheriff's main number with option 2. For a direct inmate-records question, use the jail extension before traveling.

Payette Jail Remote Visits

Payette County's official jail page says there is no in-person social visitation at the county jail. All social inmate visitation is conducted through CTEL's online platform, also presented through InmateSales. That means the courthouse address is important for records, court business, attorney matters, bond questions, medication or eyewear drop-off, and sheriff services, but not for ordinary social visit windows. Exact visit length, day-by-day availability, approval-list rules, and remote-visit pricing were not published in the official county text reviewed.

CTEL customer service is listed as 1-877-998-5678, and the online account site is InmateSales. Confirm the current account setup and any visit limits with CTEL or jail staff before scheduling. Note: Do not drive to the facility for a social visit; Payette County routes social visitation online.

Payette Jail Mail Money

Payette County publishes specific rules for funds, commissary, and property. Money orders or cashier's checks must be payable to Payette County Sheriff's Office in care of the inmate's name. The detention lobby provides envelopes, and the inmate's name should be written on the front before the envelope goes into the green mailbox marked "Inmate Funds." Those deposits are posted Mondays and Thursdays. The lobby kiosk accepts cash, debit cards, and credit cards, sells prepaid phone cards, and credits funds immediately, with a fee deducted from the deposit. The exact kiosk fee was not published in the official county text.

Commissary supplies supplemental hygiene items and snacks. Payette County says commissary profits are used for inmate-benefit items such as televisions, exercise equipment, and clothing, so taxpayers are not burdened with those specific costs. That is a narrow statement about commissary proceeds, not a claim that commissary funds general jail operations.

Payette Jail Property Rules

The jail's property rule is one of the clearest local details. Ordinary property is only accepted by mail and must be new in the original packaging. The official allowed mailed list is limited to three pairs of socks, three pairs of underwear, three white crew-neck tee shirts with no pockets, three bras, and one soft-back bible. The only in-person property drop-off categories named by Payette County are doctor-prescribed medication and prescription eyewear.

The official page did not publish a full inmate-mail addressing template with booking number or inmate ID. Use the facility address and confirm the exact format with Jail/Inmate Records before mailing property or written correspondence.

Payette Booking Intake

Booking at Payette County Detention Facility can begin after an arrest, court commitment, warrant, contempt order, civil-process hold, or sentence to the county jail. The Sheriff's Records Division processes and maintains arrest, citation, complaint, and disposition records generated within the Sheriff's Office jurisdiction, and it packages arrest information for prosecutors. A person arrested by Payette Police, Fruitland Police, Idaho State Police, Fish and Game, or a sheriff's deputy may be booked into the county jail even when the police report, prosecutor channel, and court record are handled by different offices.

Operations analysis material adds timing context. Bookings most often occurred on Saturdays and around 8:00 p.m. Releases can occur at any hour, often after bond posting, and release volume increases between 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in a pattern that the county connects to weekday arraignment hearings held around 1:30 p.m. In 2024, 76.9 percent of inmates were released within two days of booking. A Payette custody search can therefore miss a person who has already bonded out, moved to court supervision, or transferred to IDOC.

Payette Jail Programs

Payette County lists work release, spiritual meetings, educational programs, and substance-abuse programs for the detention facility. Work release applies to sentenced inmates with judge-granted privileges. The inmate must provide a work schedule on company letterhead, and the listed cost is $25 per day. Questions about eligibility, schedule changes, and reporting rules should go through jail staff because the official page does not publish a full work-release handbook.

Medical information in the operations analysis says a Physician Assistant visits the facility regularly to evaluate and address inmate medical needs. When the Physician Assistant is not on site, Payette County Paramedics and Payette Fire Rescue respond to medical calls and decide whether hospital transport is needed. Planning documents also identify medical and mental-health housing needs as part of the classification pressure inside the existing jail.

Classification

The jail housing decision based on security, separation, medical, mental-health, or safety needs.

Work release

A court-approved program that lets an eligible sentenced inmate leave for work and return to custody.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release even after local bond is addressed.

Payette Jail Planning

The current jail began as a 26-bed facility built in 1972. The county jail page says a February 1999 jail bond for $1.95 million funded expansion and renovation, resulting in additional beds, a laundry area, kitchen facility, cafeteria and multi-purpose area, medical exam and breath-testing room, new visitation area, and attorney-client visiting room. The facility is described as about 12,756 square feet.

Recent Payette County planning material focuses on the limits of that building. The county says the existing jail no longer meets operational, regulatory, or space needs for a growing community. It cites failed inspections, required sight-and-sound separation limits, recurring plumbing and building-system repairs, site constraints, and limited or no expansion options. Planning materials also describe county-owned land near 7th Avenue North as the proposed location for a new jail and discuss the November 4, 2025 general obligation bond proposal of up to $40 million. The county's election information page later posted official November 2025 results, and public result coverage reported that the jail bond failed, so the bond is best treated as a rejected 2025 financing proposal rather than an approved construction plan.