The Idaho Department of Correction lists 10 in-state prison locations. Earlier this year, Money Inc. put together a list of the “20 Worst Prisons in America” and one of those facilities made the list.
Idaho's climbing prison population has a group of lawmakers giving a second look at some recommendations made by policy experts three years ago, including reclassifying some felonies as misdemeanors and increasing efforts to prevent people from going to prison in the first place.
A man who spent 20 years in an Idaho prison, including 14 years on death row, for murder before being exonerated is facing new charges. KTVB-TV reports Donald Manuel Paradis was arrested Tuesday for aggravated assault.