It’s been a long, excruciating nine months since Milo Warnock was killed in an Idaho prison .
And while Tuesday’s announcement that the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has finally indicted a suspect brings some relief, Milo’s family hopes to see broader justice beyond the conviction of a suspect.
“What I want to see happen is the investigation opened up so we can expose what goes on in the prison,” Milo’s father, Mike Warnock, told me by phone Tuesday. “Our rage is against the system and the prison and the whole works.”
As I wrote in a column back in January , Milo’s family feels he got a raw deal in being sent to prison for a DUI to begin with, and then things only got worse from there. During a two-year delay in his trial because of COVID, Milo rode a bicycle to work every day and never missed or failed a required urinalysis. And yet, the judge sentenced Milo to 10 years in prison, with at least two years fixed.
