By Christina Lords | Editor-in-Chief
The South Idaho Correctional Institution sign outside the facility in Kuna. The facility houses about 400 women and 300 men. (Photo by Laura Guido/Idaho Capital Sun)
COURTS + POLICING
Idaho’s prisons are full. Corrections agency will request $45.3 million to open 3 new facilities
By Laura Guido
A new women’s prison is one of three new facilities the Idaho Department of Correction, or IDOC, plans to open within the next year.
According to a preliminary budget request, the state agency will ask Idaho legislators in January for around $45.3 million to furnish and operate those new facilities to address a statewide shortage of prison beds. The new facilities will add nearly 1,000 new beds in the state prison system.
Wolf 1090F, pictured, is the former alpha female of the Mollie’s Pack and among the oldest known wolves in Yellowstone National Park history. (Photo courtesy of Sylvia Borgonovo)
ENVIRONMENT
Yellowstone’s Mollie’s Pack is mostly back in the park, but not before spurring threats, bounties
By Mike Koshmrl
A historic wolf pack whose bloodlines and territory trace to the 1995-96 reintroduction of wolves has mostly returned to its traditional Yellowstone National Park turf, increasing the odds that its naive-to-humans members will survive a Wyoming hunting season that started Tuesday.
Mollie’s Pack made waves early this summer when the pack shifted its primary territory to the Absaroka Range northwest of Cody outside of the park. The move drew threats from hunters vowing to go after the pack and, in a tit-for-tat, an offer of a $10,000 bounty intended to identify and doxx anyone who legally kills the animals.
Evening at camp on the Middle Fork Salmon River. (Photo courtesy of Jack Hurty)
COMMENTARY
As extinction nears, welcome to Idaho’s ‘Salmon-less River’
By Pat Ford
From within this commercial outfitting culture, I have gathered some perspectives on salmon and steelhead extinction from Middle Fork outfitters, guides who work for them, one of their customers and two local elected leaders. I mainly feature their own words.
Together they suggest the breadth of this culture, its intimacy with the Middle Fork Salmon River, and the stakes for it as the Middle Fork’s wild salmon disappear.
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