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| Idaho's Last Private Prison |
| By boiseweekly.com- Harrison Berry |
| Published: 09/07/2016 |
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Pleasant Valley Road east of Kuna is desolate. On either side are huge gravel pits and vast reaches of high desert specked with hardy shrubs and dry grass. It's also prison row. Dotted across the otherwise barren landscape are signs for the Idaho State Correctional Center, the South Boise Women's Correctional Center and the Correctional Alternative Placement Program—the only remaining private lockup in the state of Idaho. Opened in 2010, CAPP is a minimum security facility owned and operated by Management and Training Corporation that houses about 430 low- to medium-risk male inmates undergoing treatment for substance abuse or cognitive issues. It's one of four minimum security prisons in Idaho and boasts a 93 percent "graduation" rate, meaning it releases its inmates after they have completed a rigorous regimen. "Believe it or not, we care," said CAPP Warden Brian Finn, pointing to a brass pin affixed to his lanyard, bearing the acronym BIONIC—a motto of sorts for MTC. In mid August, the Department of Justice issued a directive to the federal Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out contracts with private prison companies, following a report that showed their facilities were more violent than their public counterparts. Read More. |
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