Belgrade author Canyon Hohenstein drew from his experience leading a Montana inmate wildfire crew for his fictional novel “Who Tames the Flames?” exploring wildland firefighting, trauma, redemption and working with prisoners away from cell walls.
Hohenstein discussed the book and the 2021 Swan Valley fire that inspired it at the Country Bookshelf on Thursday, reflecting on the incarcerated firefighters he led and the personal stories that shaped his prose.
Idaho should not be placing women with good behavior in “the hole” because the state has run out of prison beds.
POCATELLO — Twelve Bannock County inmates have hustled their way into graduation after successfully completing a new program that provides the…
Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance played from a phone speaker as eight people, clad in caps, gowns, and orange jumpsuits, walked into a…
BLACKFOOT — With the addition of a 73-bed wing that was completed last summer, the Bingham County Sheriff's office determined it would need at…
On the one-month anniversary of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Wilder, 15 detained individuals were released from Idaho prisons, with a senior U.S. district judge for Idaho citing a lack of due process and unlawful confinement.
POCATELLO — Parolees involved with the local GEO Reentry Services Connection and Intervention Station recently celebrated their success at a g…
POCATELLO — Community leaders and Idaho Department of Correction officials broke ground on a new community reentry center on the city’s south …
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a har…
POCATELLO — Convicted murderer Brad Scott Compher will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
