Ada County Jail Inmate Roster Lookup

Ada County Jail Overview

Ada County Jail is operated by the Ada County Sheriff's Office at 7200 Barrister Drive in Boise. It is a large county jail and regional custody channel for southwest Idaho. Research for Boise County includes Ada County Jail because Vera's incarceration-trends methods material specifically notes Boise County as a small county that sends people to a jail run by adjacent Ada County. For Boise County-only custody questions, Sheriff Scott Turner's office remains the local starting point before a regional jail search.

The Ada County FY2024-2025 budget book describes the Jail Services Bureau as managing Idaho's largest and most secure jail facility. Most inmates are housed in dorm settings, while higher-risk inmates are placed in closed-custody units. The jail also has a fully functional medical clinic, an inmate-staffed kitchen, and laundry facilities.

The official Ada County inmate roster is the strongest online custody channel in the regional facility set. It is subject-matched to this page because it directly supports inmate lookup at Ada County Jail.

Ada County Jail Capacity and Population

Ada County's FY2024-2025 Final Adopted Budget Book lists the jail capacity at 1,116 inmates. The Ada County Sheriff's 2023 annual report lists daily average population at 936 in 2021, 1,019 in 2022, and 999 in 2023. Those figures are for Ada County Jail, not a separate Boise County jail dashboard.

The same research notes that a prior FY2022-2023 budget listed capacity at 1,224, so the current page uses the FY2024-2025 value. Daily population can still be affected by classification, closed-custody beds, medical housing, staffing, releases, and transfers.

For Boise County searches, the Ada numbers should be read as serving-jail context rather than a Boise County-only count. The research did not locate a Boise County ADP table, so Ada County's capacity and annual population figures are useful mainly when a Boise County detainee has been transferred into the larger regional jail.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Ada County Jail

Use the official Ada County Jail roster for people housed in Ada County Jail. The roster allows last-name-prefix searching, excludes juveniles, updates every 24 hours, and says custody status can only be confirmed by phone or in person. It can show JID number, age, arresting agency, charge count, severity, charge type, bail, and VINE custody-notification prompts.

1. Open the Ada County inmate roster and enter the first letter or letters of the person's last name.
2. Review matching names and use age, JID number, and arresting agency to avoid confusing similar names.
3. Open the roster detail or charge panel and check charges, warrants, holds, bail, and nonbailable notices.
4. Call Ada County Jail at 208-577-3000 if you need current confirmation before posting bond, traveling, or relying on the record.

If the person was sentenced to Idaho state custody, use the IDOC Resident/Client Search instead of the jail roster. If the person is in federal custody, use the BOP locator or U.S. Marshals custody channel. Immigration detention is searched through ICE ODLS rather than a county jail roster.

When the roster is not enough, Ada County also publishes a public-records request page. The research notes that requests may be submitted online or in writing, response timing is generally 3 to 10 business days, and fees may apply. Use that route for records requests, not urgent live custody confirmation.

Ada County Jail Address and Contact

Ada County Jail's main public phone is the number to use when a roster entry is unclear, recent release or transfer may not appear online, or the person may be held on a Boise County matter but housed in Ada County.

Visiting Someone at Ada County Jail

Ada County Jail uses online video visits through GettingOut for public visits. Each inmate receives two free 25-minute online visits per week, and additional visits are available for purchase. The jail lists GettingOut support at 1-866-516-0115 and gives a visitation phone number of 208-577-3113.

The Ada County Jail video visitation page is the source-matched reference for public visiting rules and the GettingOut process.

Attorneys, clergy, and other approved professionals use the Virtual Visitation System. Attorneys submit government identification and a bar card. Family, friends, and bondsmen are not authorized to use that professional system.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Ada County Jail

Ada County publishes detailed mail, phone, commissary, and deposit instructions. Personal mail goes to a scanning address with the inmate's full name and JID number. Publications must come directly from a publisher or bookstore, excluding Amazon, and are sent to the Barrister Drive publication address with the inmate name and JID number. Inmates cannot receive phone calls, but most can buy phone time for outgoing calls.

The Ada County mail and payments page is the source-matched image for this section because it documents the mail, commissary, phone, and deposit channels.

Booking and Intake at Ada County Jail

Ada County roster entries can show the person's name, JID number, age, arresting agency, charge count, charge severity, charge type, bail, and VINE custody-notification option. Charge types observed in the research include criminal charge, warrant, out-of-county warrant, return to custody, hold, and serving time. Bail values may show a dollar amount, Included, or Not Bailable.

For Boise County users, the key intake question is whether the person is being held by Ada County on an Ada matter, a Boise County transfer, an out-of-county warrant, a state custody issue, or another agency hold. A roster result should be treated as a starting point, not final proof of release eligibility.

The roster's bail display is especially important because it can show nonbailable charges or charges where bail is included in another total. A dollar figure does not guarantee release if another warrant, hold, detainer, IDOC return, or court order prevents the jail from releasing the person.

About Ada County Jail

Ada County Jail has on-site medical services staffed by licensed professionals around the clock, full-time mental-health providers, emergency dental care, and housing for people needing higher medical or mental-health care. Inmates request care through Medical Request Forms on Telmate kiosks. Research also notes some medical or mental-health appointments can carry a $15 co-pay and medication can carry a $5 co-pay.

The jail's public materials also describe indigent support. If an inmate has no commissary money for seven days before a commissary request, the jail supplies hygiene items, three stamped envelopes, and writing paper weekly. Commissary revenue is used for inmate-used items such as chairs, books, law library materials, TVs, board games, and indigent supplies.

Ada County also publishes PREA information for the jail. Research Section 17 notes that Ada County Jail was PREA-certified in October 2016, has a zero-tolerance policy, and uses 208-577-3000 as a reporting phone. That information belongs to the Ada facility, not to the Boise County holding-facility policy.