The Idaho Department of Correction flew 130 prisoners to Colorado Tuesday morning in an effort to relieve crowding as Idaho’s inmate population goes up.
“We know how hard this is on the inmates’ families but the fact is we’re running out of room,” Idaho Department of Correction Director Brent Reinke says in a press release.
The Department could eventually move as many as 800 inmates to Colorado over the next couple of years. It’s unclear how long the inmates will be housed out of state. A written press release says it could be “several years.”
On average, it costs the state $52.82 per day to house an inmate at an Idaho correctional facility. It will cost, on average, $54.19 per inmate per day at the Kit Carson Correctional Center (KCCC) in Burlington, Colorado. Click here to continue reading...