Butte County Jail Overview
Butte County Jail is the only local detention facility resolved from the official facility map for Butte County. It is operated by the Butte County Sheriff's Office in Arco. The county contact page and the Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory both identify Dave Hansen as sheriff, and the directory lists him as Sheriff and Jail Administrator. No official source located a separate Butte County jail annex, work-release center, municipal jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, ICE facility, or USMS contract detention center physically in Butte County.
The facility is a county jail, not a state prison. It may hold people arrested and taken to county jail, people charged and committed for trial, people serving county jail sentences, and people held under court or sheriff authority. Sentenced state-prison residents are searched through IDOC. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through BOP. Immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. Those systems may matter after a local arrest, but they do not replace the sheriff's office for current Butte County Jail custody.
Butte County Jail Capacity
The Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory of Idaho jails lists Butte County Jail with a rated capacity of 8 beds. Average daily population is not published in that directory for Butte County. The research also found no official county jail dashboard, current roster count, annual booking total, average length of stay, or jail demographic breakdown. The capacity number should be read as a facility-size figure, not a live inmate count.
The small scale changes how this facility page should be read. Butte County Jail should not be described like a large detention complex with public pods, online housing assignments, or multiple vendor portals. The useful public record facts are the sheriff contact, the 8-bed rated capacity, the absence of a public roster, and the fallback search paths.
Search Butte County Jail Custody
No official Butte County Jail online roster, booking report, mugshot gallery, or searchable current-inmate portal was located. The county-level lookup path starts with the sheriff's office. If the person has a filed case, use iCourt for charges and hearings. If the person has moved to state custody or supervision, use IDOC. If federal or immigration custody is possible, use BOP, USMS context, or ICE ODLS as appropriate.
- Call Butte County Sheriff's Office at (208) 527-8553 ext. 0 with the person's full name, date of birth if known, and date or place of arrest.
- Ask whether the person is currently held at Butte County Jail, released, transferred, in court, or held for another agency.
- Use the Butte County public-records request form when a copy of a releasable booking, release, or booking-photo record is needed.
- Search Idaho iCourt for filed charges, case numbers, hearings, and public docket entries.
- Search IDOC Resident/Client Search, BOP Inmate Locator, or ICE ODLS when the custody stage points outside the county jail.
Butte County Jail Contact
The sheriff and jail contact information is central because no official web roster was found. Use the phone line for current custody questions and call before visiting, mailing, or trying to send funds. The county contact page lists the sheriff extension and email, while the jail directory lists the same core phone and jail administrator identity.
Butte County Jail
256 W. Grand Ave.
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8553 ext. 0
Mail: P.O. Box 130, Arco, ID 83213
Email: dhansen@buttecountyid.us
County administration hours are published separately as Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Those are county administration hours, not confirmed jail lobby or visitation hours.
Visit Butte County Jail
Butte County did not publish a local jail visitation schedule, visitor approval process, dress code, video-visit system, child-visitor rule, or attorney-visit schedule in the official sources reviewed. Idaho Jail Standards require facilities to have written policies for visitation and inmate communication, but those statewide standards do not publish Butte County's local schedule. Call before travel and do not assume a visit is available from the absence of a web page.
| Visit topic | Published Butte County detail | Supported action |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | Not located | Call the sheriff before traveling. |
| Video visits | Not located | Do not assume video visits exist. |
| Visitor approval | Not located | Ask whether an approved list or appointment is required. |
| Photo ID | Not located locally | Bring government photo ID unless the sheriff says otherwise. |
| Minors | Not located | Ask about parent or guardian rules before bringing a child. |
Visitors should also ask about prohibited property, entrance location, accessibility needs, court transport, weather, staffing, emergency, or lockdown changes. Butte County is rural, so confirming before a long drive is part of the records and visitation process.
Mail Money Calls at Butte County Jail
No official Butte County Jail mail format, commissary vendor, online deposit vendor, phone provider, tablet system, publisher-shipment rule, or fee schedule was located. The correct local instruction is to call the sheriff before sending mail, money, books, photos, or property. Do not use a commercial deposit or phone site unless the sheriff confirms it is the authorized system for Butte County Jail.
| Service | Published detail | What to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address format | Not located | Ask whether to include full legal name, booking number, or date of birth. |
| Books and photos | Not located | Ask what formats and sources are accepted. |
| Money deposits | Not located | Ask whether cash, money order, card, kiosk, mail, or online deposits are allowed. |
| Phone accounts | Not located | Ask about outgoing call rules and any approved vendor. |
Booking at Butte County Jail
Idaho Code section 20-601 says county jails are kept by sheriffs and are used for people charged and committed for trial, witnesses detained by process, contempt or civil-process commitments, and people sentenced to jail. The same statute requires a person arrested and taken to county jail to submit to booking, including photograph and fingerprints. Idaho Jail Standards describe booking as an official arrest record and the admission process into jail.
Admission can include identity and age verification, review of arrest or commitment authority, search of the person and property, property inventory, recording charges and identifiers, fingerprints, photograph, medical and mental-health receiving screening, objective classification, housing, transfer, release, or court appearance. Idaho Criminal Rule 5 requires prompt magistrate appearance and no later than 24 hours after arrest, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
- Booking
- The intake process after arrest, including identity checks, papers, search, fingerprints, photograph, screening, and property inventory.
- Classification
- The jail decision process for custody level, housing, separation, and program eligibility.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency or case that can prevent release even if local bail is posted.
Butte County Jail Records Request
The Butte County public-records form is the written path for releasable jail records not handled by phone. It asks for requester identity and contact details, checkboxes for self-related records, inspection, or copies, a clear description of the records sought, signature, date, and a mailing-list or telephone-list acknowledgment. The form invokes Idaho Code section 74-102. It does not publish local fees, payment methods, ID rules, or a county-specific processing timeline.
Use specific wording. For example, request "releasable booking and release records for [name], booked on or about [date]" or "the booking photograph for [name] from the booking on or about [date], if releasable." Active law-enforcement, victim, witness, juvenile, medical, mental-health, security, sealed, or court-restricted material may be redacted or withheld.
Butte County Arrest Offices
The main criminal-justice offices are close together in Arco, but they are not the same records counter. Butte County Jail and the sheriff's office handle custody and jail records. The courthouse handles filed court cases, hearing dates, certified copies, and clerk-reviewed court records. The prosecutor makes charging decisions and may hold prosecution records subject to public-records and court limits. Probation and pretrial release have a separate county business-center contact.
| Office | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff / Jail | Custody, booking, release, jail records | 256 W. Grand Ave., (208) 527-8553 ext. 0 |
| Courthouse | Case records and hearing dates | 326 W. Grand Avenue, (208) 527-8259 |
| Prosecutor | Filed charges and prosecution role | 221 W. Grand Ave., (208) 527-3458 |
| Probation / Pretrial | Local supervision and pretrial release contact | 159 N. Idaho St., Suite 100, (208) 527-3166 |
Directions to Butte County Jail
Butte County Jail uses the sheriff contact address at 256 W. Grand Ave. in Arco. From the US-20 and US-26 corridor, use signed local streets into downtown Arco and proceed to West Grand Avenue. From Idaho Highway 93, connect into Arco and follow local signs toward the county offices. From Moore, Butte City, Howe, and other rural communities, drive into Arco first, then use Grand Avenue for the sheriff and courthouse area.
No official jail visitor parking map, public transit route, accessibility entrance note, or detention-specific entrance page was located. Call the sheriff's office before travel for parking, entry, accessibility, visit eligibility, prohibited property, and any court or transport conflicts.
Note: Confirm custody, visit availability, mail rules, and money rules with Butte County Jail before traveling or sending anything.