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| About 10 percent of Idaho’s inmates now out-of-state |
| By Idaho Statesman |
| Published: 09/23/2008 |
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IDAHO - Pam Drashner visited her husband every weekend in prison, until she was turned away one day because he wasn’t there. He had been quietly transferred from Boise to a private prison in Sayre, Okla. She never saw him again. In July, she went to the Post Office to pick up his ashes, mailed home in a box. He died of a traumatic brain injury in Oklahoma, where he was allegedly assaulted by another inmate. David Drashner was one of hundreds of male inmates Idaho authorities have sent to private prisons in other states. About 10 percent of Idaho’s inmates are now out-of-state. The Idaho Department of Correction say they want to bring them all home, they simply have no place to put them. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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