In an Idaho prison for a DUI, he was murdered. Why was he in maximum security?

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…

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