Milo Warnock could have been released from prison by July.
His fourth DUIhad put him in the Department of Correction’s custody in its prison complex south of Boise, with a two-year minimum sentence. But his decision to hold prescribed pills in his cheek at night, instead of swallowing them, had landed him in a maximum-security cell, housed with a man who had a history of attacking his cellmates, prison records showed.
Three months later, a correctional officer found blood seeping out of his cell door during a routine check, the guard wrote in a report. Warnock had been severely beaten. An hour later, he was dead…