House Bill 556 would reimburse counties more money for housing state inmates in their jails.

The Idaho Department of Correction is searching for a 57-year-old man who left supervision Wednesday in Idaho Falls.

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished. Their accounts, gathered over an almost yearlong ...

Idaho’s rising rates of incarcerating state prisoners in county jails and out of state have led to skyrocketing costs. The price for operating the state’s 10 prisons are also on the rise, according to ...

KUNA, Idaho — An Idaho Maximum Security Institution staff member has been hospitalized after he was assaulted by an inmate on Saturday. Robert David Pompa, 30, "brutally assaulted" a 56-year-old ...

Spurred by InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse by Idaho women’s prison staff, lawmakers are advancing ...

After a federal judge ruled that the Idaho Department of Corrections must provide a trans inmate sex reassignment surgery to match her gender identity, the state appealed the verdict to the Ninth ...

BOISE — Idaho Department of Correction Director Bree Derrick came before the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Monday to discuss the outlook for the department tasked with managing the state ...

Boise, IDAHO — It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias unbuttoned Michele’s pants and sexually assaulted her, she told ...

For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread sexual abuse by Idaho prison staff, the director of Idaho’s prison system laid out plans to increase protection for inmates and ...