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Idaho DOC still assessing damage from uprising

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

IDOC still assessing damage from uprising Story Created: Jan 9, 2009 By Associated Press BOISE (AP) ? Idaho Department of Correction officials are still piecing together just why some prison inmates staged an uprising in a temporary cell block, but say the agency has learned a lot of valuable lessons in how to respond, and hopefully prevent, future problems. Prison overcrowding and budget cuts created conditions that helped lead to the disturbance, said Idaho Department of Correction Director Brent Reinke and Deputy Chief of Prisons John Hardison in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. Idaho's prisons have long been overcrowded, forcing officials to house more than 600 inmates in a private prison in Oklahoma. It costs more to keep inmates in out-of-state prisons then it does to incarcerate them at home, so when Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 10, 2009 (boomark / email).