In a remote court hearing on November 5, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler revealed that the 30-year-old criminology PhD ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished. Their accounts, gathered over an almost yearlong ...

After reviewing public records obtained by InvestigateWest, Weiskircher filed a complaint with the state police against the detectives who investigated her allegations. Last month, Weiskircher and her ...

In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them ... is a culture of letting guards off the hook for sexual abuse and retaliating against inmates who report it. “I don’t think ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and ...

Dispatchers won’t accept calls from prison. Instead, inmates can tell another Idaho Department of Correction employee — usually co-workers or supervisors of the accused. It’s then up to the guard’s ...

BOISE, Idaho — In a small courthouse in southeast Idaho, a woman incarcerated at the nearby prison had just finished testifying that a male guard came into the bathroom on her cellblock and kissed her ...

Even though federal standards say all inappropriate touching by prison workers and even suggestive comments or voyeurism are illegal, Idaho’s law protects inmates from abuse only when staff touch the ...