Ada County Jail | Boise, Idaho

7210 W Barrister Dr
Boise, ID 83704-1799

(208) 577-3113
Ada County Jail
Sheriff Stephen Bartlett
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1977
minimum-maximum
County Jail

Ada County Jail

Boise is home to the Ada County Jail. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in Boise and Ada County Courts and courts of other cities in the Ada County area areas. Ada County Jail is one of several minimum-maximum prisons for the State of ID. In order to visit inmates at Ada County Jail, you'll be traveling to Boise, ID, 83704-1799 in Ada. The address of this facility is listed as 7210 W Barrister Dr. But it's important that you verify that your inmate is at this location before making travel arrangements.

Prisons in ID, like many others these days can make it difficult and costly for inmates to call the outside. This is also true of Ada County Jail. Some charge long distance fees of over $10 a minute making it almost impossible to maintain relationships and family ties. Inmate families have found they can avoid these abusive fees by setting up a local prison phone number that ring their long distance phone. A company called GlobalTel.com provides this service and they can be contacted here: jail calls. They also provide an easy way to send mail to an inmate. To use their mail service, click here: send postcards. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. ID has many types of prison facility. City Jails, County Jails, State Jails and State Penitentiaries will each have their own rules and times for visitation and even rules for sending and receiving inmate mail

Ada County Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Ada County Jail will be treated. Prisons and jails today charge for everything. You can expect to pay for soap, toothpaste, phone calls and stamps, books and even paper are all provided for a fee that is often many times higher than the price paid in the free world. Setting up an economical phone service so you can communicate without long distance charges is the first step. Then you should ask your inmate what else they will need and how you can properly send it.

Ada County Jail is located in the MST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Ada County Jail warden is Sheriff Stephen Bartlett. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Ada County Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Ada County Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.
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