Spurred by InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse by Idaho women’s prison staff, lawmakers are advancing legislation meant to close a…
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Idaho’s prison system and the state agency that certifies law enforcement will now conceal information about officers’ employment histories,…
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**Editor’s Note: The following article discusses incidents of sexual assault. Reader discretion advised.**
It was November 2023, in a staff break…
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**Content Warning: The following article discusses topics of Sexual abuse and assault.**
As Idaho reckons with revelations of widespread sexual abuse…
On a Sunday afternoon in October, a man went to the horse racetrack in Wilder, a small Idaho farming town, hoping to unwind after a long week at his…
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Content Warning: The following article discusses themes of sexual abuse and assault.
For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread…
Content Warning: The following article discusses sexual assault.
For nearly a year and a half, Andrea Weiskircher has been pleading with prison…
Content Warning: The following article discusses sexual assault.
During a yearlong investigation, current and formerly incarcerated women told…
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Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault.
In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over.
She was sobbing in a jail cell…
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Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault.
In a small courthouse in southeast Idaho, a woman incarcerated at the nearby prison had just…
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Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault.
At a medium-security prison in the desert outside Boise, two Idaho State Police detectives…
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Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault.
If they hadn’t met in prison, none of it would have happened like this. On the outside,…
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In January 2018, a woman imprisoned at South Idaho Correctional Institution outside Boise was taken to a medical clinic to get abnormal cervical…
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