Idaho Department of Correction

The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) operates nine prisons, four community release centers and 20 probation and parole offices located throughout the state of Idaho. The agency has its headquarters in Boise.

IDOC employs about 2,000 people. Most of them are correctional officers and probation and parole officers. They are all certified peace officers and train at the Peace Officer Standards Training Academy in Meridian.

IDOC's mission is to promote a safer Idaho by reducing recidivism. IDOC is responsible for the incarceration and community supervision of felony offenders in Idaho.

The Department handles adult offenders sentenced by the courts. A probation/parole officers caseload can be broken down into four categories:

As of 2016, IDOC contracts with one private prison firm, Management and Training Corporation, to run one facility: the Correctional Alternative Placement Program, a 432-bed center focused on treatment programs and inmates with cognitive issues. It opened in the summer of 2010.

Idaho entered into its first private prison project in July 2000, opening the Idaho Correctional Center with operator Corrections Corporation of America. The state paid $29 million annually for the mixed-security prison. An increasing number of lawsuits related to violent incidents, chronic understaffing and fraudulent recordkeeping revealed deep operational problems. The Idaho State Police and the FBI launched investigations. IDOC took over the facility in 2014. As part of the long legal aftermath, in July 2015 IDOC itself faced federal court allegations that it had falsified inmate medical records, and was out of compliance with previous court orders.

Idaho has also exported prisoners to private prisons in other states. From roughly 1998 to 2008, Idaho had placed inmates at Prairie Correctional Facility (Appleton, Minnesota), the Newton County Correctional Center (Newton, Texas), Dickens County Correctional Center, (Spur, Texas), Val Verde Correctional Facility (Del Rio, Texas), the Bill Clayton Detention Center (Littlefield, Texas), and the North Fork Correctional Facility (Sayre, Oklahoma). This cycle ended around July 2009.

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