BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) — Spend any time at the Idaho Maximum Security institution and you'll quickly learn "maximum security" is no understatement.
About 500 of Idaho's high-risk inmates call this place home and many of them are locked away in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. And that means little to no human interaction, eating alone, and showers three times a week.
"Ninety seven percent of these guys are going to get out and walk into an Idaho community," said Kevin Kempf, Idaho Department of Correction director. "If we treat them like crap, if we treat them like animals, they're going to walk out of a prison like that."
Thursday on KBOI 2News at 10 p.m., reporter Jeff Platt takes you inside IDOC's solitary confinement, a place where cameras are rarely allowed, to find out whether solitary confinement is serving its purpose.
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