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Idaho private prison has triple assault rate

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Idaho private prison has triple assault rate Associated Press - November 10, 2008 5:44 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho's only in-state private prison, the Idaho Correctional Center, has a violence rate that is three times higher than other Idaho prisons, and state officials say gangs are to blame. Documents from the Idaho Department of Correction obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request show that between September 2007 and September 2008, there were 123 offender-on-offender assaults at the Correction Corp. of America-run prison near Boise. That compares to 42 assaults during the same period at the Idaho State Correctional Institute and 31 assaults at the Idaho Maximum Security Institute. Put another way, half all inmate assaults at prisons statewide last year occurred at ICC...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 11, 2008 (boomark / email).