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Two former Idaho prison guards were sentenced for drug trafficking crimes after being caught in an FBI sting

A former correctional officer will a little more than three years on the inside of a jail cell after federal sting to catch corrupt jail staff

Idaho prison officials say more inmates were relocated to a Texas facility earlier this week.

Idaho prison authorities are searching for an inmate who walked away from a work detail during the weekend.

Idaho prison officials announced a new deal to house inmates in a Texas prison to ease crowding

Idaho prison officials say more inmates have been sent to a private prison facility out of state.

Idaho prison officials say another inmate has died from an apparent suicide at a facility near Boise.

An Idaho inmate has filed a lawsuit against the state's prison health care contractor contending he was denied adequate medical care.

BOISE, Idaho (KLIX) A man who once lived in Idaho and was convicted of supporting terrorist activities has now been charged for trying to murder a prison warden.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Barack Obama has granted a conditional commutation to an Idaho man serving time on a drug charge. Jose Flores Molina of Nampa was one of 98 people in the round of commutations announced by the White House last week.

To become an inmate on death row, you have to have committed some pretty disturbing crimes. Often at execution, the criminal is allowed to say some last words and sometimes those words only add to the creepiness.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's top prison official says the state will no longer house inmates in so-called dry cells — a type of cell without beds, sinks or toilets — and that all other segregated housing in the state's prisons is under review.