Idaho Prisons

Top officials with the Idaho Department of Correction are considering telling state lawmakers they need a nearly 20 percent budget increase to fund beds, staff and services for the state's growing prison population.

Idaho's legislative budget writers approved about $3 million for treating inmates with severe liver disease as well as half a million dollars to add 99 beds to the state's prison system as inmate populations continue to rise amid rapid state growth.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Board of Correction has appointed Henry Atencio as the new director of prisons two days after his predecessor, Kevin Kempf, gave his resignation notice.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's prison population is shrinking, thanks to reforms created through the state's Justice Reinvestment project.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says the Corrections Corporation of America will stand trial in December in a civil rights lawsuit over understaffing and violence at an Idaho prison. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge made the ruling Thursday.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Corrections is revisiting its policy on same-sex marriage after an inmate threatened to take the agency to court.