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Lemhi County Jail Overview

Lemhi County Jail, also described in official directory context as the Lemhi County Detention Facility, is operated by the Lemhi County Sheriff's Office. The jail is located with the sheriff and courthouse complex in Salmon. The sheriff page describes it as an adult and juvenile facility that houses males and females. That makes it the primary local custody point for Lemhi County arrests, short local detention, booking, release processing, and some work-release administration.

The jail is small and local. The sheriff page states the Sheriff's Office provides jail and dispatch services to Salmon Police Department, and dispatching services for several local emergency-response agencies. The sheriff page also lists John Bennett as Sheriff, Curtis Cannon as Chief Deputy, and Debbie Bielby as Jail and Dispatch Commander. It states the Sheriff's Office patrols about 2,000 square miles, including Leadore, Gibbonsville, Gilmore, Elk Bend, Baker, North Fork, and Shoup. That rural service area explains why a direct phone check can matter when no public Lemhi County Jail roster is posted online.

The official sheriff source shows the jail's local role and contact block.

The same county source supports the key facility facts used here: sheriff operation, adult and juvenile detention, male and female custody, jail staffing, and the locally stated bed count.

Lemhi County Jail Population

Population figures for Lemhi County Jail differ by source, and those differences should not be averaged. The county sheriff page is the primary local official source and states the jail has 26 beds. The Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory lists Lemhi County Detention Facility with 19 rated capacity and 12 average daily population. Vera's BJS-derived 2019 county file separately lists 22 rated capacity and 12 total jail population for Lemhi County. Each number answers a different source question.

The 2019 Vera row also reports 77 admissions or bookings, 8 people in pretrial custody, 10 male and 2 female jail population, 2 people held from state prison authority, 1 held from another jail, and zero people held for ICE or U.S. Marshals in that row. Those figures are historical statistics, not a live jail count. The research found no official current Lemhi daily population dashboard, no official annual booking report after the Vera/BJS trend data, and no current local demographic dashboard for detainees.

The Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory is the source for the 19 rated capacity and 12 ADP listing.

Because the county and statewide directory report different capacity figures, the safest reading is to cite each figure with its source instead of treating one as a hidden correction of the other.

Look Up Lemhi County Jail Inmates

No official Lemhi County online jail roster, inmate-search page, current inmate list, daily booking sheet, mugshot gallery, or release list was found on the official county or sheriff pages during research. For a current Lemhi County Jail inmate, the first county channel is the jail or sheriff phone line. For a copy of a booking record, booking photo, arrest report, incident report, or historical custody record, the written Lemhi County public-records request form is the documented records channel.

1. Call the sheriff non-emergency or jail information channel at 208-756-8980, or the Sheriff's Office at 208-742-1680, for current local custody.
2. Provide the full name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date and time, arresting agency, and the reason for the inquiry.
3. Use the Lemhi County public-records request form when a document copy is needed instead of a phone custody check.
4. Search Idaho iCourt for court charges and hearings after the case is filed.
5. Use IDOC Resident/Client Search, BOP Inmate Locator, or ICE ODLS only when the person may be in state prison, federal custody, or immigration detention.

VINELink is also available for Idaho custody notification. The Idaho Sheriffs' Association says VINE interfaces with jail booking systems throughout Idaho and IDOC, but a VINELink result should not be treated as the only proof of current custody. The county Sheriff's useful-links page confirms local jail-adjacent resources such as PREA awareness and CodeRED but does not add a roster. Absence of a result can reflect timing, data feed limits, name mismatch, transfer, or another custody system.

Lemhi County Jail Contact

The facility contact path is split between the Sheriff's Office main number and the non-emergency or jail information number. Use the non-emergency line for current custody and jail-service questions. Use the sheriff office number for general office routing. Written record requests use the county public-records form and the county clerk contact information listed on that form.

The Sheriff's Office staff directory repeats the address, phone, fax, office hours, non-emergency number, and jail fax.

The directory screenshot is a useful contact cross-check because Lemhi County does not publish a separate public inmate-services page with a roster, vendor list, or visit calendar.

Lemhi County Jail Visits

Lemhi County does not publish a jail visitation schedule, visitor dress code, child-visitor rule, visitor entrance note, attorney-visit policy, or video-visit vendor in the official sources located. The detention job description confirms staff monitor inmate behavior during visitation and telephone calls, so visitation and phone monitoring exist as operations. It does not prove that any specific public schedule, video option, appointment tool, or remote vendor is available.

Do not show up based on a generic Idaho county-jail schedule. Lemhi County's published sources do not provide visitor days, hours, remote-video rules, or a lobby check-in process. A person may also be ineligible for visits due to classification, juvenile status, medical status, disciplinary status, protective-order concerns, transfer, or case-specific restrictions.

Lemhi County Jail Services

Lemhi County does not publish a mail-address format for people in custody, prohibited-mail list, commissary vendor, inmate deposit route, kiosk, money-order rule, phone vendor, tablet provider, or rate sheet in the official sources located. The job description confirms staff distribute or monitor mail, personal hygiene items, commissary items, medications, visitation, and telephone calls. That supports the existence of internal service handling, but it does not support naming a vendor or promising an online deposit tool.

Call before mailing anything or trying to send funds. Ask for the exact mail format, whether an inmate number or date of birth is required, whether letters, photos, cards, books, publications, legal mail, or money orders are accepted, and what happens to mail after release or transfer. For money or commissary questions, ask whether deposits are accepted in person, by mail, by phone, or through a vendor before using any payment channel.

Lemhi County Jail Booking

The official Detention Deputy/Dispatcher job description gives the clearest local intake detail. Detention deputies process new inmates by fingerprinting, photography, physical search, processing documents, data entry, housing assignment, clothing issuance, and related booking duties. Staff also monitor inmate activity, operate security systems, seize contraband, perform census counts, maintain logs and records, investigate incidents, and perform release duties involving court orders, records, and paperwork.

Those facts support a careful records distinction. A booking photo may exist because booking photography is listed as a job duty, but Lemhi County does not publish a public booking-photo gallery. Housing assignment may exist internally, but no public housing-unit field is posted online. Release paperwork is handled by staff, but the public does not get a live release dashboard. For a record copy, use the Lemhi County public-records request form and be specific about the Sheriff's Office or Jail, the person's name, date of birth if known, booking date, and the exact record sought.

Lemhi County Jail Alternatives

The Lemhi County Jail is not the right search source for every custody question. Sentenced Idaho prison inmates, people on IDOC probation or parole, and people moved into state custody are searched through IDOC Resident/Client Search. IDOC requires a last name or IDOC number, accepts partial last-name searches with at least the first two characters, and warns that location and status can change quickly. No IDOC prison or community reentry center was listed inside Lemhi County in the official locations researched.

Federal and immigration custody are separate. The BOP locator searches federal inmates from 1982 to present, and ICE ODLS searches immigration detainees by A-number or biographical details. No federal BOP prison, ICE over-72-hour detention facility, or U.S. Marshals public detention facility was identified in Lemhi County. If a federal or immigration issue exists, do not treat a missing Lemhi County Jail record as the final answer. Use the correct federal or immigration locator, the holding facility, court records, or counsel.

About Lemhi County Jail

Lemhi County Jail is part of a small sheriff-operated system. Public sources did not show a separate work-release annex, municipal jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, ICE facility, or state juvenile correctional center inside Lemhi County. The facility map points to one local jail page: Lemhi County Jail. The research also found no public program schedule, grievance form, medical request form, accreditation statement, jail expansion plan, closure notice, consent decree, current overcrowding order, or local death-in-custody report page tied to Lemhi County Jail.

Programs and conditions should be described only from the facts located. Work release is mentioned in the detention job description. Staff respond to medical-assistance requests under policy. Staff monitor housing, recreation, work assignments, meals, showers, visitation, telephone calls, hygiene, laundry, mail, commissary, and medications. The Sheriff's useful-links page includes Inmate PREA Assault Awareness, but no Lemhi-specific PREA reporting policy was located. Idaho Jail Standards provide statewide context for admission, release, classification, communication, mail, visiting, services, programs, and work release, but they are not a Lemhi public handbook.