The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) operates nine prisons, four community release centers and 20 probation and parole offices in seven districts located throughout the state of Idaho. The agency has its headquarters in
Boise
Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's ...
.
IDOC employs about 2,000 people under the leadership of Director Josh Tewalt. Most of them are
correctional officer
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s and probation and parole officers. They are all certified peace officers and train at the Peace Officer Standards Training Academy in
Meridian
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* ...
.
Private prisons
As of 2016, IDOC contracts with one private prison firm,
Management and Training Corporation
Management & Training Corporation or MTC is a contractor that manages private prisons and United States Job Corps centers, based in Centerville, Utah. MTC's core businesses are corrections, education and training, MTC medical, and economic & social ...
, to run one facility: the Correctional Alternative Placement Program, a 432-bed center focused on treatment programs and inmates with cognitive issues. It opened in the summer of 2010.
Idaho entered into its first private prison project in July 2000, opening the
Idaho Correctional Center
Idaho State Correctional Center (ISCC) is a state prison for men located in Kuna, Idaho, Kuna, Ada County, Idaho, one of a cluster of seven detention facilities known as the "South Boise Prison Complex". The other prisons in the area are the Corr ...
with operator
Corrections Corporation of America
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley ...
. The state paid $29 million annually for the mixed-security prison. An increasing number of lawsuits related to violent incidents, chronic understaffing and fraudulent recordkeeping revealed deep operational problems. The Idaho State Police and the FBI launched investigations. IDOC took over the facility in 2014. As part of the long legal aftermath, in July 2015 IDOC itself faced federal court allegations that it had falsified inmate medical records, and was out of compliance with previous court orders.
Idaho has also exported prisoners to private prisons in other states. From roughly 1998 to 2008, Idaho had placed inmates at
Prairie Correctional Facility (Appleton, Minnesota), the
Newton County Correctional Center
The Newton County Correctional Center (originally Fillyaw Correctional Center) was a privately operated prison located in Newton, Newton County, Texas, owned by the county. From 1995 until its permanent closure in 2012, the county contracted wi ...
(Newton, Texas), Dickens County Correctional Center, (Spur, Texas),
Val Verde Correctional Facility
The Val Verde Correctional Facility is a privately owned and operated prison, located in Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas, operated by the GEO Group under contract with the county of Val Verde. The county, in turn, contracts with U.S. Immigrati ...
(Del Rio, Texas), the Bill Clayton Detention Center (Littlefield, Texas), and the
North Fork Correctional Facility
North Fork Correctional Center is a medium to maximum security correctional facility for men located east of Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma.
From its opening in 1998 through 2015, the prison was owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of ...
(Sayre, Oklahoma). This cycle ended around July 2009.
Once again in July 2012, IDOC exported about 200 prisoners to the
Kit Carson Correctional Center
The Kit Carson Correctional Center was a privately owned, medium-security state prison for men located in Burlington, Kit Carson County, Colorado, owned and operated by the CoreCivic
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America ( ...
in
Burlington, Colorado
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History
Burlington was originally laid out on ...
, a contract that ended in mid-2016 and the closure of that prison.
Private partnerships
The department has contracted with
JPay, a private firm that provides email and money-transfer services to prisoners. The department receives a commission for these transactions.
Facilities
South Boise Prison Complex
The South Boise Prison Complex is located in
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Ada County
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, five miles (8 km) south of the
Boise Airport
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and nine miles (15 km) east of
Kuna
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. It has six prison facilities and one community work center.
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" Idaho Department of Correction. Retrieved on June 4, 2011.
* The Correctional Alternative Placement Program (CAPP) facility () opened July 1, 2010.
Management and Training Corporation
Management & Training Corporation or MTC is a contractor that manages private prisons and United States Job Corps centers, based in Centerville, Utah. MTC's core businesses are corrections, education and training, MTC medical, and economic & social ...
of Ogden, Utah built the facility and operates the program. CAPP offers intensive treatment programs for substance abuse and cognitive issues for up to 432 low to moderate risk male offenders needing substance abuse treatment. It houses three different groups of offenders: probationers, parolees and retained jurisdiction.
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Idaho State Correctional Center
Idaho State Correctional Center (ISCC) is a state prison for men located in Kuna, Ada County, Idaho, one of a cluster of seven detention facilities known as the "South Boise Prison Complex". The other prisons in the area are the Correctional Alt ...
. On 7/1/2014 IDOC took over ownership of the building from
Corrections Corporation of America
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley ...
. The warden is Randy Valley.
*
Idaho State Correctional Institution
Idaho State Correctional Institution (ISCI), also referred to as "The Yard," is an Idaho Department of Correction state prison for men in unincorporated area, unincorporated Ada County, Idaho, near Kuna, Idaho, Kuna. Located in the desert five mi ...
* Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) () is a high-security state prison. It opened in November 1989 to confine Idaho's most violent offenders. The compound is located within a double perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire, an electronic detection system and a 24-hour armed perimeter patrol. The offender population includes a large number of mental health offenders, including subjects of civil commitments. Thirty beds are dedicated for prisoners with acute mental illness. IMSI has restrictive housing beds dedicated to administrative segregation, disciplinary detention and death row. The remaining beds are allocated for close-custody general population offenders.
* South Boise Women's Correctional Center (SBWCC) () opened in March 2002 at the site of a former community work center. It is a program-specific, minimum-custody facility designed for female offenders sentenced to a retained jurisdiction commitment by the court. It provides a sentencing alternative for the courts to target those offenders who might, after a period of programming and evaluation, be viable candidates for probation rather than incarceration. This facility has a safe operating capacity of 248.
* South Idaho Correctional Institution (SICI) () is a minimum-security prison. It receives mail through a post office box in
Boise
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. SICI is a working facility, which houses male minimum custody offenders in a dormitory setting. A lot of the offenders will need to work and maintain that work to show the parole board they can handle being responsible along with programming. Those offenders who choose to work will have to apply for available positions and is expected to work whether inside or outside the facility compound. Sex offenders are not allowed to go off compound for work. Road crews for the
Idaho Transportation Department
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and fire fighting crews for the
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are located here. SICI also houses offenders who have almost completed their sentence (toppers). Toppers do not have to work if they choose not to. SICI also operates the final pre-release program for about 90 percent of offenders paroling from the system. The Idaho board of correction approved women residents to be housed here to alleviate overcrowding.
* The South Idaho Correctional Institution-Community Work Center (CWC) houses minimum-custody male offenders in a dormitory setting. Most offenders are assigned a job and work inside or outside the facility. Vocational Work Projects include road crews for the Idaho Transportation Department and conservation and fire fighting crews for the U.S. Forest Service. Some offenders serve as workers in the Correctional Industries program. It also operates the pre-release program for the majority of offenders paroling from the system.
Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino
Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino (ICIO) () is a modified old state school and hospital mental health building in
Orofino.
A new wing was added in 1988. It is a standard prison designed for male offenders of all custody levels. The facility also houses protective custody offenders. Until April 1994, the state's female offenders were housed in one tier here, but due to litigation, females are now housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center. Offender work programs, including correctional industries, are coordinated with schooling, counseling and recreational opportunities. The facility has a safe operating capacity is 541. The warden is Terema Carlin. The deputy warden of security is Amy Anderson and the deputy warden of operations is Ken Shriver.
North Idaho Correctional Institution
North Idaho Correctional Institution (NICI) (), northwest of
Cottonwood. A former
radar station
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of the
U.S. Air Force
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below
Cottonwood Butte
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, it has been in the state correction system since 1974.
It currently houses residents of the retained jurisdiction program. At one time it housed the sex offender treatment program, before it was moved to ICI-O.
Pocatello Women's Correctional Center
Pocatello Women's Correctional Center (PWCC) () is a prison for women located in the southwestern portion of
Pocatello
Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the ...
. It opened in April 1994. It is designed specifically to house all custody levels of female offenders. The facility is the first of its kind for the Department of Corrections, and it is designed specifically to meet the special needs of female offenders and their programs. The facility has an operating capacity of 289 female offenders and houses all custody levels.
St. Anthony Work Camp
St. Anthony Work Camp (SAWC) () is located in
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.
It is designed to house 240 low-risk, minimum-custody male residents. The facility's primary focus is to provide vocational work project opportunities offering full-time, constructive, paid employment to residents. This is accomplished through contracted work and public service projects with government agencies, non-profit organizations and private employers. The program helps residents develop good work habits, a positive work ethic and marketable work skills while providing a financial resource to meet immediate and future needs.
Work centers
*Nampa Community Work Center
*East Boise Community Work Center
*Twin Falls Community Work Center, closed August 1, 2011.
*Idaho Falls Community Work Center
See also
*
List of law enforcement agencies in Idaho
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Idaho.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 117 law enforcement agencies employing 3,146 swo ...
*
List of United States state correction agencies
This is a list of corrections agencies in the states of the United States.
State adult prison agencies
* Alabama Department of Corrections
* Alaska Department of Corrections
* Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry
* Ark ...
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List of U.S. state prisons
This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Florida ...
References
External links
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Buildings and structures in Clearwater County, Idaho
Buildings and structures in Fremont County, Idaho
Buildings and structures in Idaho County, Idaho
Capital punishment in Idaho
State law enforcement agencies of Idaho
State corrections departments of the United States