The Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) has issued a response following an InvestigateWest report highlighting sexual abuse in the state's women's prisons. The report underscores Idaho's laws ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justice scales, law books and a wooden gavel Judge David Nye on Tuesday blocked Idaho's House Bill 668 from impacting individuals ...

Thomas Creech has been on death row since 1983 for the beating death of fellow inmate David Jensen in 1981. (Courtesy of Christine Hanley/Federal Defender Services of Idaho) Correction officials in ...

BOISE – Soon after an ambush at a Boise hospital last year injured three correctional officers when a prison transport turned dangerous, the director of the state’s prison system said he made ...

BOISE (KIVI) — Bree Derrick is now at the helm of Idaho’s prison system, stepping into a key leadership role as the department navigates operational changes and policy shifts. In her first one-on-one ...

Update: OSHA opens investigation into death of Idaho prisoner, who was working at an Elmore County facility.

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially do so, starting July 1. Four other states – South Carolina, Utah, ...

Idaho Department of Correction Director Josh Tewalt, right, and Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar offer details about IDOC prisoner Skylar Meade’s escape from a Boise hospital. Meade and suspected ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) is currently searching for an inmate who walked away from a worksite in Idaho Falls. Forty-eight-year-old Daniel Eugene Palmer was ...

Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and ...

IDAHO, USA — A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction and class action status in a lawsuit filed on behalf of transgender incarcerated people who sued the state of Idaho over House ...