Editor’s note: “Guarded by Predators” is an investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and the system that shields them. Find the ...

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised. BOISE (InvestigateWest) — It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional ...

For the first time since InvestigateWest exposed widespread sexual abuse by Idaho prison staff, the director of Idaho’s prison system laid out plans to increase protection for inmates and ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished. Their accounts, gathered over an almost yearlong ...

As Idaho reckons with revelations of widespread sexual abuse by women’s prison staff, the Trump administration has cut off support meant to help states combat that kind of abuse. Funding for the ...

The Idaho Department of Corrections has issued a statement following what appears to be a complaint from convicted Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger that he is being taunted while in prison. “We are ...

For nearly a year and a half, Andrea Weiskircher has been pleading with prison officials, state leaders and law enforcement to look at the evidence. In the summer of 2024, Weiskircher accused five ...

Boise, IDAHO — It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias unbuttoned Michele’s pants and sexually assaulted her, she told ...