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Idaho DOC Transfers Prisoners to Arizona Facility Run by CoreCivic
On March 26, 2026, the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it would be transferring hundreds of prisoners out of state to a private prison in Arizona. The transfer is intended to reduce overcrowding at the 10 prisons controlled by the DOC, according to a statement released by the agency.
One hundred and twenty prisoners have already been sent to the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex, a lockup owned and operated by private prison profiteer CoreCivic. Another 200 prisoners will soon be transferred to the facility, as the Idaho Statesman reported. The DOC also sends prisoners to another CoreCivic prison, the Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona.
Idaho has a prison population that’s just under 10,000, but it only has a capacity of 8,200 beds. The DOC has sent around 700 prisoners to out-of-state facilities, which is around the same number as Montana—a state that recently switched from shipping prisoners to Arizona to a CoreCivic prison complex in Mississippi, as reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2026, p. 41.]
Source: Idaho Statesman
