About Idaho's Correctional System
Idaho manages its correctional system through the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC), operating facilities including the Idaho Maximum Security Institution and the South Boise Women's Correctional Center.
If you are searching for a Idaho inmate, use the state's official search portal at this link. For federal inmates, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.
Visitors to Idaho facilities must be on an approved visitation list. Contact the facility directly using the phone numbers listed below to confirm current visitation schedules, as these may change without notice.
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Showing 16 facilities in Idaho
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High
SICI is a working facility, which houses male minimum-custody offenders in a dormitory setting. Every offender is assigned a job and is expected to work whether inside or outside the facility compound. Road crews for the Idaho Transportation Department and fire fighting crews for the U.S. Forest Service are located here. SICI also operates the final pre-release program for about 90 percent of offenders paroling from the system.
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High
The first work center in Idaho. In September of 1988 it became an all-female facility. A new addition was built in 2002, increasing the facility's capacity.
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Maximum
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http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/our_facilities/location_icc.htm
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Medium
ICI-O is a modified old state school and hospital mental health building. A new wing was added in 1988. It is a standard prison designed for male offenders of all custody levels. This facility also houses protective custody offenders. Until April 1994, the state's female offenders were housed in one tier here, but due to litigation, females are now housed at the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center. Offender work programs, including correctional industries, are coordinated with schooling, counseling and recreational opportunities.
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Maximum
IMSI opened in November 1989 to confine Idaho's most violent offenders. The compound is located within a double perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire and an electronic detection system. The offender population is comprised of a large number of mental health offenders, including civil commitments. Thirty beds are dedicated for acute mentally ill. IMSI has restrictive housing beds dedicated to administrative segregation, disciplinary detention and sentence of death. The remaining beds are allocated for close-custody general population offenders.
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Medium
ISCI is the department's oldest and largest facility. It is the primary facility for long-term male, medium-custody offenders. It also has special-use beds for infirmary, outpatient mental health and geriatric offenders. The institution is surrounded by a double fence, which is patrolled by sentry dogs. There also are seven towers to monitor perimeter security and offender movement. The compound includes a chapel, recreation center, school, large correctional industries operation and a medical clinic.
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High
http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/our_facilities/location_nici.htm
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Medium
PWCC is the department's first facility designed specifically to meet the unique program needs of female offenders. It opened in April 1994 and houses all custody levels. The institution has its own reception and diagnostic center, pre-release program and work center release.
The SBWCC opened in March 2002 at the site of a former community work center. This is a program-specific, minimum-custody facility designed for female offenders sentenced to a retained jurisdiction commitment by the court. It provides a sentencing alternative for the courts to target those offenders who might, after a period of programming and evaluation, be viable candidates for probation rather than incarceration.
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Minimum
This work camp, located in the small, eastern Idaho town of St. Anthony, is designed for low-risk, minimum- and community-custody male offenders. The program focus is to provide a work therapy program offering full-time, constructive, paid employment to offenders through contracted work and public service projects with government agencies, non-profit organizations and private employers.
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High
The Ada County Jail was built in 1977 when the Ada County-Boise City Public Safety Building first opened. The jail was originally built to hold a maximum of 160 inmates, plus 32 work release prisoners.The jail has been expanded several times since then. Today, the total inmate capacity is 1144.