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25-479: The facility holds a maximum of 1407 male and female prisoners, and was built in 1998. Val Verde has had a troubled history. In early 2004 female detainee LeTisha Tapia reported to the warden that male and female prisoners were having regular sexual contact with the approval of guards. She was then sexually assaulted by inmates and an officer as punishment for being a 'snitch'. Tapia hanged herself. Her family sued and settled. The money damages were undisclosed but

50-411: A "mysterious illness". (The Idaho prisoners returned home no later than July 2009.) In May 2008 former guard Emmanuel Cassio pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges brought from a 2006 incident where he punched an inmate, then obstructed the investigation. Cassio had been 19 years old at the time. In 2007 another Val Verde guard was caught attempting to smuggle love letters and "cheap wine" into

75-502: A commission for these transactions. The South Boise Prison Complex is located in unincorporated Ada County , five miles (8 km) south of the Boise Airport and nine miles (15 km) east of Kuna . It has six prison facilities and one community work center. Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino (ICIO) ( 46°29′31″N 116°15′39″W  /  46.49194°N 116.26083°W  / 46.49194; -116.26083 )

100-434: A safe operating capacity is 541. The warden is Terema Carlin. The deputy warden of security is Amy Anderson and the deputy warden of operations is Ken Shriver. North Idaho Correctional Institution (NICI) ( 46°04′48″N 116°25′41″W  /  46.08°N 116.428°W  / 46.08; -116.428 ), northwest of Cottonwood . A former radar station of the U.S. Air Force below Cottonwood Butte , it has been in

125-681: Is a modified old state school and hospital mental health building in Orofino . A new wing was added in 1988. It is a standard prison designed for male offenders of all custody levels. The 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. The facility has

150-399: Is accomplished through contracted work and public service projects with government agencies, non-profit organizations and private employers. The program helps residents develop good work habits, a positive work ethic and marketable work skills while providing a financial resource to meet immediate and future needs. Burlington, Colorado Burlington is a home rule municipality and

175-459: Is designed specifically to house all custody levels of female offenders. The facility is the first of its kind for the Department of Corrections, and it is designed specifically to meet the special needs of female offenders and their programs. The facility has an operating capacity of 289 female offenders and houses all custody levels. The PWCC houses the female death row prisoners sentenced by

200-400: Is occasionally heavy, with an average annual amount of 33.7 inches (86 cm) – but mostly the winter weather is very dry and extremely variable in temperatures. More than 33 afternoons (over a third) each winter can be expected to reach or exceed 50 °F (10 °C), but 4.9 mornings each year will drop to or under 0 °F (−17.8 °C) and 24.3 afternoons do not top freezing. As of

225-772: Is on the Loewen database of possible sundown towns . Burlington is located on the High Plains in eastern Colorado. At the 2020 United States Census , the city had a total area of 1,378 acres (5.575 km ), all of it land. The easternmost interchange in Colorado on Interstate 70 is located at Burlington, 12 miles (19 km) west of the Kansas state line. Burlington has a typical High Plains cool semi-arid climate with hot, dry summers punctuated by occasional heavy thunderstorm rains, and cold, very dry winters. Snowfall

250-642: The Burlington Public School District RE-6J . The district has one elementary school, one middle school and one high school. Burlington also has several private schools. Burlington Elementary School, Burlington Middle School and Burlington High School are located in Burlington. Burlington has a weekly newspaper , The Burlington Record . A run of 3 years, 1910–1912, of the Kit Carson County Record

275-541: 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

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300-522: The census of 2010, there were 4,191 people, 1,478 households, and ? families residing in the city. The population density was 1,995.7 inhabitants per square mile (770.5/km ). There were 1,478 housing units at an average density of 703.8 per square mile (271.7/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 84.3% White , 6.2% African American , 1.2% Native American , 0.5% Asian , 0.1% Pacific Islander , 8.5% from other races , and 0.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 27.5% of

325-409: The county seat and most populous community of Kit Carson County , Colorado , United States. The city population was 3,172 at the 2020 United States Census . Burlington was originally laid out one mile west of its present location in 1887 by a man named Lowell in anticipation of the arrival of the railroad. In addition to having the location wrong, Lowell also did not have title to the land. When

350-860: The Bill Clayton Detention Center (Littlefield, Texas), and the North Fork Correctional Facility (Sayre, Oklahoma). This cycle ended around July 2009. Once again in July 2012, IDOC exported about 200 prisoners to the Kit Carson Correctional Center in Burlington, Colorado , a contract that ended in mid-2016 and the closure of that prison. The department has contracted with JPay , a private firm that provides email and money-transfer services to prisoners. The department receives

375-642: 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 as Correctional Alternative Placement Program (CAPP). On July 1st 2023, IDOC re-purchased the CAPP facility and renamed it to Mountain View Transformation Center or MVTC. Idaho entered into its first private prison project in July 2000, opening

400-407: The average family size was 3.11. In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.2% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 121.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 126.2 males. The median income for a household in the city

425-563: The facility. She was sentenced to serve time where she'd worked. In 2015 the former laundry supervisor at Val Verde was under federal indictment for the sexual abuse of a ward. The supervisor faced a 15 year sentence. 29°22′24″N 100°50′52″W  /  29.373212°N 100.847885°W  / 29.373212; -100.847885 Idaho Department of Corrections The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) operates nine prisons, four community release centers and 20 probation and parole offices in seven districts located throughout

450-618: 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),

475-409: The population. There were 1,287 households, out of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.7% were non-families. 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and

500-606: The railroad did arrive, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , it built its depot at the present site of Burlington and those who had built in Old Burlington moved their buildings to the new townsite. Trains began running in 1888. "The Settlement", about 12 miles northwest of Burlington, was settled by German immigrants from Russia , many from Hoffnungstal, South Russia , who, in addition to their homesteads, built Congregational and Lutheran churches. Burlington, CO

525-710: The settlement terms mandated a full-time county monitor. In 2006 GEO Group also settled a lawsuit brought by a former black guard whose supervisor "kept a hangman’s noose in his office and a Polaroid photo of himself in a Ku Klux Klan hood in his desk." In July 2007 the Idaho Department of Corrections moved about 60 prisoners into Val Verde, roughly half of the Idaho prisoners withdrawn from another GEO Group facility in Texas for maltreatment. The following month two inmates died of dehydration and two others hospitalized by

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550-519: The state correction system since 1974. It currently houses residents of the retained jurisdiction program. At one time it housed the sex offender treatment program, before it was moved to ICI-O. Pocatello Women's Correctional Center (PWCC) ( 42°50′33″N 112°27′02″W  /  42.84250°N 112.45056°W  / 42.84250; -112.45056 ) is a prison for women located in the southwestern portion of Pocatello . It opened in April 1994. It

575-603: The state of Idaho, which currently holds only one prisoner who awaits execution, Robin Lee Row . St. Anthony Work Camp (SAWC) ( 43°58′05″N 111°41′37″W  /  43.96806°N 111.69361°W  / 43.96806; -111.69361 ) is located in St. Anthony . It is designed to house 240 low-risk, minimum-custody male residents. The facility's primary focus is to provide vocational work project opportunities offering full-time, constructive, paid employment to residents. This

600-655: The state of Idaho. The agency has its headquarters in Boise . IDOC employs about 2,000 people under the leadership of Director Josh Tewalt. 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 . As of 2016, IDOC contracts with one private prison firm, Management and Training Corporation , to run one facility:

625-417: Was $ 33,854, and the median income for a family was $ 42,500. Males had a median income of $ 29,167 versus $ 19,018 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,054. About 12.2% of families and 14.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 20.3% of those under age 18 and 15.8% of those age 65 or over. Burlington is a home rule municipality . Burlington Public Schools are part of

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