Idaho’s prisons are full. Corrections agency will request $45.3 million to open 3 new facilities.

Correction: This story was corrected at 9 a.m., Sept. 16 to reflect that women state prison inmates are not sent out of state due to a shortage of beds. They are sent to county jails.  If a woman incarcerated at the South Idaho Correctional Institution in Kuna has a dentist appointment, she has to walk through […]