Idaho State Correctional Center

Idaho State Correctional Center
Location Kuna, Idaho
Security class mixed security levels
Capacity 2160
Opened July 2000
Managed by Idaho Department of Corrections
Director Kevin Kempf

Idaho State Correctional Center (ISCC) is a state prison for men located in Kuna, Ada County, Idaho,[1] one of a cluster of seven detention facilities known as the "South Boise Prison Complex". The other prisons in the area are the Correctional Alternative Placement Program, the Idaho State Correctional Institution, the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, the South Boise Women's Correctional Center, the South Idaho Correctional Institution, and the South Idaho Correctional Institution-Community Work Center.

The ICC opened in July 2000 as the first privately run prison in Idaho, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.[2] With a capacity of 2080 inmates it's also the largest prison in the state, housing maximum, medium and minimum custody male offenders.

In January 2014 Idaho governor Butch Otter announced that the state would take over control of the facility when the contract expires in June 2014, citing a long history of issues including violence within the facility and allegations of understaffing and contract fraud. Governor Otter himself has been a proponent of privatization.[3]

In 2014 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began an investigation of the CCA management of the prison. The ACLU, which sued on behalf of inmates in 2010, claimed that understaffing resulted in high levels of violence at the facility, which prompted some inmates to refer to it as a "gladiator school."[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/locations/prisons/idaho_correctional_center
  2. ↑ http://cca.com/facilities/idaho-correctional-center
  3. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/idaho-over-privately-run-state-180507159.html
  4. ↑ Rebecca Boone (March 7, 2014). APNewsBreak: FBI Investigates Prison Company. Associated Press. Retrieved on April 5, 2014.

Coordinates: 43°28′21″N 116°14′12″W / 43.472393°N 116.236732°W / 43.472393; -116.236732

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