Idaho

The deputy was treated at a local hospital and released

A department spokesman said what happened at the Texas facility was not a riot, but a disturbance that required a prison tactical unit

Some of the biggest reforms to Idaho's prison system, including court-ordered improvements to medical care, reduced overcrowding and increased staffing levels have come in response to inmate lawsuits

An inmate is suing after he says Twins Falls County Jail staff and sheriff’s deputies ignored his knee injury and refused to provide medical care

The Inmate Dog Alliance Project of Idaho is a partnership between the Idaho Humane Society and the Idaho Department of Correction created in 2004

In December, the Idaho Board of Correction selected Kevin Kempf to replace retiring director Brent Reinke.

Says the state will no longer house inmates in so-called dry cells and that all other segregated housing in the state's prisons is under review

Judge said the offender must continue to have an approved chaperone present, within his direct line of sight, at all times he is around his infant child

Said he wasn't ready to believe allegations that inmates had been moved out of cells in advance of visits to make facility look better to court