Title 20 — STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS

20-601. County jails — By whom kept and for what use. The common jails in the several counties of this state are kept by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are respectively situated, and are used as follows: 1. For the detention of persons committed in order to secure the…

20-602. Separate rooms required. (1) Each county jail shall house male and female prisoners separately. (2) Each county jail shall house separately all juveniles processed as adults under Idaho Code. (3) Each county jail shall develop an objective inmate classification system whi…

20-603. Authority to designate detention officers to act as peace officers. All detention officers employed by the county sheriff who receive peace officer certification from the Idaho peace officer standards and training council shall have the authority given by statute to peace…

20-604. Confinement — Order of the court. Any district judge or magistrate may order a person confined or detained, upon any grounds provided by law, in any county or municipal jail or other confinement facility within the judicial district in which the court is located. Such ord…

20-605. Costs of confinement. (1) For purposes of this section, "reimbursement rate" means ninety-five percent (95%) of the unadjusted medicaid rate of reimbursement for medical charges allowed pursuant to title XIX of the social security act, as amended, that is in effect at the…

20-606. Determining confinement costs — Decree. If a district judge or magistrate orders the confinement or detention of any person under the preceding section 20-604, Idaho Code, in a jail or confinement facility in which there is no agreement as to the daily costs of confinemen…

20-607. Prisoner reimbursement to the county. (1) The county sheriff shall seek reimbursement for any expenses incurred by the county in relation to the charge or charges for which a person was sentenced to a county jail as follows: (a) From each person who is or was a prisoner, …

20-610. Service of papers on sheriff for prisoner. A sheriff or jailer upon whom a paper in a judicial proceeding, directed to a prisoner in his custody, is served, must forthwith deliver it to the prisoner with a note thereon of the time of its service. For a neglect to do so he…

20-611. temporary guards. A county sheriff may hire a temporary guard or private security service to assist in the protection of the county jail, to transport inmates from one location to another, or to safely keep prisoners at a location such as a hospital, hospice care, or long…

20-612. Reception and board of prisoners. The sheriff must receive all persons committed to jail by competent authority except mentally ill persons not charged with a crime and juveniles. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to furnish all persons committed t…

20-613. Security for board of civil prisoners. Whenever a person is committed upon process in a civil action or proceeding, except when the people of this state are a party thereto, the sheriff is not bound to receive such person, unless security is given on the part of the party…

20-614. Prisoners must be actually confined except on order of court for private employment. (1) A prisoner committed to the county jail by any court for trial or examination, or upon conviction for a public offense, must be confined in the jail until he is legally discharged unl…

20-615. Reception of federal prisoners. The sheriff must receive and keep in the county jail any prisoner committed thereto by process or order issued under the authority of the United States, until he is discharged according to law, as if he had been committed under process issu…

20-616. Sheriff answerable for federal prisoners. A sheriff to whose custody a prisoner is committed, as provided in the last section, is answerable for his safe-keeping in the courts of the United States, according to the laws thereof.

20-617. Labor of prisoners on public works. Persons confined in the county jail under a judgment of conviction, suspended sentence or withheld judgment rendered in any criminal case, either under a judgment of imprisonment or a judgment for the payment of a fine and costs, or per…

20-618. Jail commissary fund. County jails which provide commissary items to inmates, and collect the costs or a portion of the costs for such items from an inmate with sufficient funds to pay for items, are authorized to create a self-perpetuating commissary fund. The purpose of…

20-619. Fee for medical service. (1) County sheriff departments administering county jails may charge a nominal fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) to any nonindigent inmate who has sufficient funds in his commissary or personal account for the purpose of seeing the jail provided doct…

20-620. No prisoner exempt from labor. No prisoner liable to employment as provided in this chapter shall be exempt therefrom except by reason of physical disability.

20-621. Commutation for good behavior. Every person serving a jail sentence in a county jail in the state of Idaho who has a good record as a prisoner and who performs the tasks assigned him in an orderly and peaceable manner, shall upon the recommendation of the sheriff be allow…

20-622. Inspection of jail by commissioners. The county commissioners must inspect the county jail, and once every three (3) months inquire into the state thereof as respects the security thereof, treatment and condition of the prisoners, and take all necessary precaution against…

20-624. Imprisonment for fine. Whenever any defendant is confined solely for willful non-payment of any fine, the court, may, in lieu of payment, confine such person at the rate of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per day until the fine imposed is satisfied.

20-627. Unlawful conveyance of articles into and out of county jail. Any person who shall deliver or attempt to deliver or shall have in his possession with the intent to deliver, any letter, article or thing, to one confined in a county jail or in any other place or building use…

20-628. Jail disciplinary action for frivolous or malicious court proceedings. (1) In any case, whether filed in state, federal or administrative court, in which a prisoner in a county jail submits a frivolous or malicious claim, or knowingly testifies falsely or otherwise knowin…