Idaho Department of Correction

Here you’ll find the most current information about how capital punishment cases are treated in Idaho from start to finish.

Lawmakers in 2022 approved buying out the remaining lease on the building and in the most recent session gave the thumbs up to spending $2.5 million to take over operations.

The Idaho Department of Correction faces a “critical” staff shortage, department staff told board members on Wednesday.

Brad Little, Idaho's 33rd Governor, addressed the City Club of Boise on the 29th of January, 2020 and took questions from members and attendees. Little…

This City Club of Boise forum was recorded on Friday, the 1st of March, 2019 at the Grove Hotel in Boise.Criminal justice reform recently attracted…

Reports from a state investigator and three staffers at an Idaho prison suggest that inmates' medical records may have been intentionally changed or…

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill that would formally expand the secrecy surrounding executions.The Senate Judiciary and Rules committee agreed…

The Idaho Board of Correction has appointed Kevin Kempf as the new director of prisons one week after his predecessor, Brent Reinke, gave his resignation…

The state takeover of a privately-managed prison in Boise is now underway.Idaho corrections staff have been preparing for months to take over the…

Idaho's new prison contraband law has yielded its first arrest. Inmate Joshua Combs was charged with having of a cell phone and chewing tobacco at the…