Clark County Jail Records

Clark County Jail Overview

Clark County Jail is operated by the Clark County Sheriff's Office. The county page identifies Sheriff Mark McClure as the elected sheriff, and the Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory lists him as both sheriff and jail administrator. The facility type is county jail, which means it is the local detention point for people arrested or committed in Clark County, including pretrial detainees, short county-jail sentences, court commitments, and local holds allowed under Idaho county-jail law.

This is not a state prison or a federal detention center. People sentenced to Idaho Department of Correction custody are searched through the IDOC Resident/Client Search after transfer, while federal sentenced inmates are searched through BOP. Immigration custody is searched through ICE ODLS, and official ICE sources identify the Idaho ICE detention facility context outside Clark County. For current Clark County Jail records, the county jail phone and public-record request route are the local sources because the research did not locate a Clark County online roster, booking page, or jail operations website.

The Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory is the strongest public jail-directory source for the local facility entry. It lists Clark County Jail as a small county jail in Dubois and notes that no jail website is listed.

That directory entry is useful because it ties the facility name, operator, address, sheriff contact, capacity, and lack of a jail website to one high-authority Idaho jail source.

Clark County Jail Population

Clark County Jail has sourced capacity and population figures, but the available numbers are limited. The current high-authority jail directory lists a rated capacity of eight beds and an average daily population of one. Those figures match the scale of Clark County's rural jail map: the research found one local detention facility, no separate city jail, no regional detention center, no state prison, and no BOP or ICE detention facility physically in the county.

The capacity number should not be treated as a live bed count. It is a directory figure, not a real-time roster. The average daily population also does not prove who is in custody today. For a specific person, call the jail and ask whether the person is held, released, transferred, or was never booked. If staff cannot provide the record by phone, use the county public-record request route and include the person's full name, approximate booking date, and any known court case number.

Clark County Jail Lookup

No official online Clark County Jail roster, booking report, mugshot gallery, or inmate-search portal was found in the reviewed official sources. The lookup process is therefore a fallback chain. Start with direct jail contact, then use written records requests, Idaho court records, VINELink, IDOC, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody stage. The key distinction is local custody versus state or federal custody. A person recently arrested in Clark County may be in the county jail, but a person sentenced to state prison belongs in the IDOC search rather than the jail roster.

1. Call Clark County Jail / Sheriff's Office at 208-374-5403. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency, and any case number.
2. Ask whether the person is currently held at Clark County Jail, has been released, has been transferred, or was not booked there.
3. If details are not released by phone, ask what written public-record process applies to booking records, jail logs, release dates, or booking photographs.
4. Use Idaho iCourt for formal charges and hearing dates after a case has been filed, because booking facts and court charges are separate records.
5. Search IDOC, BOP, VINELink, or ICE ODLS only when the person may be in state, federal, victim-notification, or immigration custody instead of the local jail.

For broader local jail search guidance, the Clark County jail inmate records page separates current custody, released records, state custody, and federal or immigration custody paths. That distinction matters here because Clark County's jail does not publish the kind of public roster that many larger counties use.

Clark County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff contact path is the main Clark County Jail records path. The county sheriff page lists the sheriff phone, and the sheriff directory profile adds fax and mailing information. The public county site does not break out separate numbers for booking, detention records, warrants, civil process, dispatch, or a jail lobby desk, so callers should identify the question clearly at the start of the call.

The county's official sheriff profile confirms the sheriff contact details and the P.O. Box used in local county listings.

Use that contact information for custody confirmation, but use the written public-record form when the request needs a copy, a documented response, or a record that staff cannot release during a phone call.

Clark County Jail Visits

The reviewed official sources did not publish a Clark County Jail visitation schedule, visitor-registration system, dress code, ID rule, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit procedure, or video-visit vendor. That absence is important. Rules from another Idaho county should not be imported into Clark County Jail records, because local staffing, housing, court schedules, and facility size can change what is allowed on a given day.

Call before visiting even if the person was confirmed in custody earlier in the day. A small jail population can change fast through court release, bond posting, transfer, or a hold from another agency. Ask staff whether the person is eligible for a visit, whether the visit must be scheduled, and whether court, medical, classification, or safety limits affect access.

Clark County Jail Mail

Clark County Jail did not publish jail-specific mail, phone, commissary, deposit, or money-transfer instructions in the reviewed sources. The only verified local address is the jail and sheriff address in Dubois, including the P.O. Box. Before mailing anything, ask the jail for the exact format it wants on the envelope and whether the person must be listed with a booking number, legal name, or housing detail. Do not send packages, money orders, books, photos, or property until staff confirms what is accepted.

If the person has moved to state custody, Clark County Jail mail and money rules no longer control. IDOC has separate visiting approval, mail format, commissary, package, and money systems for sentenced state residents. BOP and ICE have their own federal and immigration custody systems. This matters when a Clark County arrest leads to transfer after sentencing or after a federal or immigration hold.

Clark County Jail Records

The written records path runs through Clark County's public-record process when jail details are not available by phone. The public-record form is titled for Idaho public-record law and asks for the requester's name, address, phone, email, a description of the information requested, number of copies, signature, and date. It states that a Clark County representative will contact the requester within three working days of receipt. For questions about the form, the county main or clerk phone in the research is 208-374-5304.

Be specific. A useful request identifies the record sought, such as a booking record, jail log entry, release date, bond record, booking photograph, or incident report. Include the person's full name, approximate arrest or booking date, and any known court case number. Idaho law recognizes public access to records, but law-enforcement and investigatory exemptions can still limit release, especially when a case is active, a witness is involved, privacy interests apply, or disclosure could interfere with enforcement.

Booking record

Jail intake record tied to a person received into custody.

Booking photo

The photograph taken during jail booking; public release depends on records law and exemptions.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency, such as probation, another county, federal authorities, or ICE.

Roster

A public current-inmate list when a jail publishes one; no Clark County online roster was located.

The county clerk page is the local route for the public-record form and county records routing. The Clark County Clerk page also helps separate county records from court records.

Court records after filing should be handled through Idaho iCourt or the clerk of court, while jail custody and booking records remain sheriff or jail records.

Clark County Jail Release

Clark County does not publish a local bond page, bond-counter schedule, payment-method list, or online jail bond instruction page in the reviewed sources. The release path should start with custody confirmation at the jail, then court confirmation once a case exists. Idaho Criminal Rule 46 governs release and bail statewide, including recognizance release, cash deposits, property bonds, and surety bonds. A no-bond hold, probation or parole hold, warrant from another county, federal hold, or ICE detainer can block release even when a local bond amount appears available.

1. Call Clark County Jail at 208-374-5403 to confirm custody and ask whether bond or release conditions have been set.
2. Ask whether any hold, warrant, detainer, or judge order prevents release.
3. Check Idaho iCourt after filing for case status, hearings, and payment information that may be tied to the court file.
4. Contact the Clark County Clerk or court contact at 208-374-5304 for case-payment or clerk routing questions.
5. Confirm the exact payment form and location before traveling to post money or arrange a surety bond.

A release from Clark County Jail is not the same as a case dismissal. It means the person is no longer held at that point in the case or hold process. Court dates, conditions, warrants, fines, and supervision terms can still remain active after release.

Clark County Jail Court Records

A booking at Clark County Jail and a Clark County court case are linked but not identical. Jail booking facts come from the arrest, warrant, commitment, or court order that brought the person into custody. Formal charges are filed and tracked in court after prosecutor review. The prosecutor may file charges that differ from the arrest label, amend them later, or decline some allegations. For court records after a jail arrest, search Idaho iCourt and contact the Clark County Clerk or District Court when the portal does not show the needed document.

For a full arrest-to-case explanation, use the Clark County court records after jail arrest page. It covers charging documents, first appearance, bond events, hearings, sealed records, and the difference between an allegation and a conviction.

Clark County Jail Directions

Clark County Jail is listed at 224 West Main in Dubois with the sheriff mailing address at P.O. Box 327. County pages also use the 224 W Main Street courthouse and government-office address. The research did not locate published visitor parking rules, jail lobby hours, ADA entrance details, lockers, after-hours entry rules, or a public transit route serving the jail. Treat the trip as a rural travel plan, not a large-city courthouse visit.

Visitors approaching from Interstate 15 or the Dubois area should route to West Main Street and confirm the courthouse or sheriff entrance before arrival. Visitors coming from the Idaho Falls or Fremont County side should plan for highway travel into Dubois. People coming from the Montana border or north Clark County should allow extra time for rural roads, weather, fuel, and limited services. Call before leaving, especially for visitation, bond, property, or records pickup.

Clark County Jail Oversight

Clark County's recent public agenda references show the jail remains part of county operations. A May 12, 2025 agenda referenced jail inspection results. A November 10, 2025 agenda included sheriff office updates and listed automatic jail locks, maintenance, camera-system repair, and sheriff staffing matters. January 2026 agenda sources mentioned jail discussion and jail inspection. These are agenda references, not full inspection reports, but they are useful local signals for a very small jail where public operational detail is otherwise sparse.

Idaho county-jail law also gives county commissioners an inspection role. Idaho Code 20-622 requires county commissioners to inspect the county jail every three months for security, treatment and condition of prisoners, and precautions against escape, sickness, and infection. The Idaho Sheriffs' Association publishes jail standards and describes jail inspection and standards support, but the research did not locate a Clark County-specific accreditation status, jail program menu, grievance procedure, medical services policy, or reentry program description.