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Prison Book Program is an American non-profit organization that sends free books to people in prison. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the organization is based in Massachusetts , it mails packages of books to people in prisons in 45 U.S. states , as well as Puerto Rico and Guam . [ 3 ]
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."
Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino (ICIO) (19] is a modified old state school and hospital mental health building in Orofino. [13] [20] A new wing was added in 1988. It is a standard prison designed for male offenders of all custody levels.
A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges.
The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986.
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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.
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