Idaho will have a new state prisons director for the first time since 2018 after its current chief leaves for the private ...

Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, a combat veteran and retired police officer, voted against the bill on the Senate floor. He was also one of few Republicans to vote against a bill to make the firing squad ...

Bree Derrick will lead the agency after longtime director Josh Tewalt departs for the private sector. Derrick has served as ...

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

A former Idaho prisoner who once worked in construction has sued Idaho’s prison system and its for-profit private medical provider after his fractured hand was left untreated, alleging that the ...

The United States Department of Justice is committed to eliminating the threat posed by Mexican drug cartels and their ...

A 31-year-old man from Ontario, Oregon, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison on Friday for a series of carjackings at gunpoint.

Steven Greenleaf Blodgett, 67, of Pocatello, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession with intent to ...

Kyle Green Associated Press Idaho will have a new state prisons director for the first time since 2018 after its current chief leaves for the private sector, the Governor’s Office announced ...

There will soon be a new face leading the Idaho Department of Correction. Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday announced that Bree Derrick will replace Josh Tewalt as director of the Idaho Department of ...

Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a ... minutes after being shot by three volunteer prison employees last Friday – a method used ...

A 44-year-old Honduran national suspected to be unlawfully in the United States and using the name “Hector Ojeda Manuel ...