The Idaho Department of Correction is transferring hundreds of incarcerated people to a private prison out of state to address overcrowding at Idaho prisons, according to a department news release.
The agency, which operates 10 prisons around the state, has contracted with out-of-state prisons to address overpopulation issues for several years.
IDOC officials said in the news release that 120 men have already been transferred to Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex, and another 200 men will be transferred there soon. The Florence, Arizona, prison is owned and operated by CoreCivic, a Nashville-based for-profit prison company that also operates detention centers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE…