Despite the jail’s overcrowding, the number of arrests throughout Ada County has declined in the last 10 years. In 2022, law enforcement agencies throughout the county made 10,495 arrests ...

The incidents occurred in the Southwest Boise area in late June and early July. The Ada County Sheriff’s Office is seeking ...

An Ada County Sheriff's Office spokesperson says they hope to start Phase 1 by next summer. That all depends on if and when they get the initial approval and what happens during design review.

On any given day at the Ada County Jail, inmates on kitchen duty are on the hook to prepare thousands of meals: three squares for their fellow inmates, along with bagged lunches for those at the ...

The Ada County jail is still suffering from overcrowding, a years-long problem made more complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and lots of vacant positions ...

Deputies are investigating some disturbing encounters in south Boise. The Ada County Sheriff’s Office says a person riding an ...

Registered nurse Katrina Felton tends to a patient in an exam room at the Ada County Jail, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Brian Myrick / Idaho Press at the Ada County Jail, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.

In the Ada County Jail’s arrestee intake area, boxes of paper supplies, kitchen equipment and stored food line walls and pallets on the concrete floor. The makeshift warehouse is one sign of the ...