Prison News | Idaho

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Education & Rehabilitation

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

Gangs in Prison

Health & Medical Treatment

• Idaho officials say mental health problems, attempted suicides increasing in state prisons
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Department of Correction officials say they're seeing an increase in attempted suicides and other mental health problems within the state's prisons.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, July 11, 2013
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Judge says documents in Idaho private prison lawsuit must be unsealed; contempt hearing set
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal judge has ordered that several documents be unsealed in a lawsuit between Idaho inmates and Corrections Corporation of America just days before a hearing is set over whether the private prison company should be ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, August 5, 2013
  
  
• Few Idaho parolees tracked with ankle monitors, but cause many alerts
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Department of Correction uses electronic ankle monitors to track between 30 and 45 people on probation and parole every month, and even that relatively low number of monitors often results in hundreds of alerts ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Sunday, July 28, 2013
  
  
• Idaho officials to keep records on prison medical care secret in long-running federal lawsuit
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Department of Correction and attorneys representing inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Institution have quietly reached an agreement that could permanently hide from public view records connected to the ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, July 12, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Idaho teen charged with murder held in solitary confinement for over 70 days "-- He's being punished before he's been convicted," public defender argues.
  
  Prosecutors say Eldon Gale Samuel III, then 14, admitted to fatally shooting his father before brutally hacking his 13-year-old brother to death. The incident came after Samuel's father, Eldon Samuel Jr., beat the teenager and kicked him out of their home.... [ more ]
  UPI, Thursday, July 24, 2014
  
  
• Some States Refusing To Comply With Law Designed To Reduce Prison Rape
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Several states are refusing to comply with a federal law designed to reduce sexual assaults in prison, with governors criticizing the decade-old law as counterproductive and too expensive to implement.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Saturday, May 24, 2014
  
  
• Judge: Prison understaffing lawsuit can proceed, even during FBI investigation
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says he won't put a lawsuit against a major private prison company on hold while the FBI investigates the company for possible criminal fraud charges.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, March 21, 2014
  
  
• Feds don't want Idaho private prison lawsuit paused
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal prosecutor says she doesn't need a lawsuit against a private prison company put on hold for an FBI fraud investigation at an Idaho detention facility.

  U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson's statement was filed in Boise's U.S. District Court Thursday afternoon in response to a request from Corrections Corporation of America lawyers.... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Friday, March 14, 2014
  
  
• FBI investigates Corrections Corporation of America over Idaho prison dubbed "Gladiator School"
  
  BOISE, IDAHO — The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it "Gladiator School."

  The Nashville, Tenn.-based CCA has operated Idaho's largest prison for more than a decade...... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Friday, March 7, 2014
  
  
• Hearing held in Idaho juvenile corrections lawsuit
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says he will decide soon whether a whistleblower lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections should go to trial.

  U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill told attorneys...... [ more ]

  Associated Press, Wednesday, March 5, 2014
  
  
• Judge says he'll decide soon if CCA is in contempt for violating settlement with Idaho inmates
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A federal judge says he will decide soon if Corrections Corporation of America should be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement agreement it had with inmates at an Idaho prison requiring the company to increase staffing.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Friday, August 9, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Correction Dept. looking for woman who walked away from East Boise Community Work Center
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Department of Correction says a 42-year-old resident of a Boise-area prison work center has gone missing from her job.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Monday, August 5, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• ISP investigating apparent suicide at Nez Perce County jail
  
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho State Police is investigating an apparent suicide at the Nez Perce County Jail in Lewiston. The sheriff's office says detention officers found 52-year-old Jeffrey Admyers of Lewiston unconscious at around ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
  
  
• ISP investigating apparent suicide at Nez Perce County jail
  
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho State Police is investigating an apparent suicide at the Nez Perce County Jail in Lewiston. The sheriff's office says detention officers found 52-year-old Jeffrey Admyers of Lewiston unconscious at around ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 9, 2013
  
  

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• Corrections Corp. of America exiting Idaho after scandal, lawsuits - Mired in controversy, CCA declines to renew its contract with the state.
  
  BOISE, Idaho - Private-prison giant Corrections Corp. of America will leave Idaho after more than a decade marked by scandal and lawsuits surrounding its operation of the state's largest prison.... [ more ]
  Canadian Press, Thursday, October 3, 2013
  
  
• A timeline of CCA's operations in Idaho
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Seventeen years ago Idaho's state-run prisons were overflowing and years of tough-on-crime legislation promised that the flow of new inmates would continue to increase. Idaho needed a new prison, but lawmakers weren't wild about paying to build and run one.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Thursday, October 3, 2013
  
  
• Private prison company CCA says media shouldn't have right to intervene in Idaho lawsuit
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Private prison company Corrections Corporation of America is asking a federal judge to deny a request from Idaho news organizations to keep documents open in a lawsuit over conditions at a CCA-run prison.... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 16, 2013
  
  
• Idaho seeks new contractors for troubled private prison, but IDOC won't bid
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho prison leaders are looking for a new company to run the state's largest prison after Corrections Corporation of America admitted to understaffing and overbilling for its work operating the Idaho Correctional ...... [ more ]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, June 18, 2013