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Idaho State Correctional Institution (ISCI), also referred to as "The Yard," is an Idaho Department of Correction state prison for men in unincorporated Ada County, Idaho, near Kuna. [2] Located in the desert five miles south of the Boise Airport , it is one of a six residential detention facilities known as the "South Boise Prison Complex."
The Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site was a functional prison from 1872 to 1973 in the western United States, east of Boise, Idaho. The first building, also known as the Territorial Prison , was constructed in the Territory of Idaho in 1870; the territory was seven years old when the prison was built, a full two decades before statehood.
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. [2] IDOC took over the facility in 2014.
Josh Tewalt, director of the Idaho Department of Correction, addressed members of the media at the Idaho State prison complex south of Boise after the planned execution of death row prisoner ...
A fight involving 31 prisoners broke out Saturday afternoon at Idaho’s maximum-security prison south of Boise and sent one prisoner to a local hospital with injuries that were deemed not life ...
In January 2014, Idaho governor Butch Otter announced that the state would take over control of the facility when the contract expired in June 2014, citing a long history of issues including violence within the facility and allegations of understaffing and contract fraud. [3] Governor Otter himself has been a proponent of privatization. [4]
Two men charged in a brazen prison escape and ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three correctional officers with gunshot injuries were arraigned in Boise on Monday. Skylar Meade, the escaped ...
IMSI houses Idaho's death row for men and execution chamber. The IMSI prison was 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.