Prison Place

About ISCI

ISCI is the department's oldest and largest facility. It is the primary facility for long-term male, medium-custody offenders. It also has special-use beds for infirmary, outpatient mental health and geriatric offenders. The institution is surrounded by a double fence, which is patrolled by sentry dogs. There also are seven towers to monitor perimeter security and offender movement. The compound includes a chapel, recreation center, school, large correctional industries operation and a medical clinic.

Safe Operating Capacity: 1,490

Physical Address only: 13500 S. Pleasant Valley Rd, Kuna, ID 83634
Please send all mail to:
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 14, Boise, ID 83707
Telephone: 208-336-0740

  Visiting Hours

Note: The visitors may enter the gatehouse only during the enter times.Offenders will be allowed to visit on their assigned visiting days and times only. We cannot make exceptions. All times are subject to pending a count or other institutional need.

Visiting Hours [PDF]

Upon completion of their visits, offenders may return to their units at the following times: 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and closing.

Medical Note: Offenders assigned to a medical unit may visit with prior approval from the Visiting Supervisor during the regular hours listed above. If an offender is unable to leave his unit, the visit must be approved by the Warden and scheduled in advance.

 

INMATE PHONE SERVICE

 

The inmate phone service provider is Public Communications Services (PCS). This provider offers lower rates for families and friends of offenders receiving calls from IDOC facilities.

All calls are 30 minutes except at Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which allows 45 minutes.

The rates are as follows:

DEBIT
Local and intrastate calls $3.40
Interstate and Canada calls
$3.40 set up $.75 minimum, plus tax
International $5 setup and $1 per minute plus tax (debit only)

PREPAID COLLECT
Local and intrastate calls
$3.60 plus tax
Interstate and Canada calls
$3.60 set up $.80 minimum, plus tax

COLLECT
Local and intrastate calls
$3.80 plus tax
Interstate and Canada calls
$3.80 set up $.85 minimum, plus tax

Note: The inmate can make debit calls by purchasing time through the inmate commissary provider.

Prepaid collect accounts can be set up by family and friends directly through PCS by calling the customer service number: 1-888-288-9879.

Visiting Information

Our Policy
It is the policy of the Idaho Board of Correction to encourage offender communication with family, friends and relatives through visitation.

Purpose
The Operations Division encourages visitation between offenders and their friends and family. Visitation can be a valuable program that allows offenders to maintain relationships and contact with the outside world. The Operations Division has identified rules and regulations in this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure a safe environment for visitors, staff and offenders.

Definitions
*Photo Identification: State driver’s license, State ID Card, Military ID Card or a current United States Passport.

  Administrative Procedure

A Privilege
Visitation is a privilege and is therefore at the unreviewable discretion of the facility head.

Immediate Family
Immediate family members of an offender are defined as:

• Mother or father of the offender (including step parent);
• Brother or sister of the offender (whole, half blood or adopted);
• Stepbrother or stepsister of the offender;
• Wife or husband of the offender;
• Children of the offender as follows: natural children, adopted children or step children (must be proved through marriage certificate and notarized approval from the natural parent not married to the offender); or
• Grandparents of blood relation.

Granting Visitation
Prior to being granted visitation, probationers and parolees must have been released from a department facility for over six (6) months. They must also have written authorization from the supervising probation/parole authority and be approved in writing by the facility head or designee.

Children
Persons under the age of eighteen (18) are prohibited from visiting unless they are immediate family members as described in the definition of immediate family. Their adult parent of guardian, who must also be an approved visitor, must accompany persons under eighteen (18) years of age. Proof of guardianship (certified copy of birth certificate, adoption papers, and/or other court documents) must be provided.

Children who are the victim of the offender will not normally be allowed to visit. Exceptions may be made through the facility head or designee. In these cases a licensed counselor must first evaluate the child to determine if it is in the child’s best interest for visits to be permitted.

Visiting Authorization Forms
Upon completion of appropriate authorization forms, juvenile natural children of the offender will be escorted to the visit with the offender by an approved visitor, related to both the juvenile and the offender, either by blood, marriage, notarized paper or legal court appointed guardian of the children.

Between Offenders
Visits between offenders assigned to correctional facilities are prohibited regardless of relationship. Requests for exceptions can only be considered at the Deputy Administrator level.

Visiting More than One Offender
Visitors are not allowed to be on the visiting list of more than one (1) offender unless they are immediate family members as previously described. For other than immediate family, a six (6) month interval must have passed since being dropped from one offenders visiting list before being permitted to apply and visit another offender

Types of offenders with Restricted Visitation Privileges
The following offenders may be denied or have restricted visitation privileges as designated by SOP: offenders in detention, disciplinary segregation, reception and diagnostic unit, offenders under sentence of death, offenders unavailable due to a facility emergency and offenders at infirmary facilities or town hospital.

Posting of Schedules and Rules
Visiting schedules and rules and regulations will be posted within each facility.

Behavior of Visitors
Offenders and their visitors are expected to conduct themselves and their visits in a quiet, orderly and dignified manner consistent with the visiting SOP and facility guidelines.

Consequences for Not Following Visiting Regulations
Any effort to circumvent or evade visiting regulations may result in the denial of future visits, disciplinary action, and possible criminal prosecution against the visitor in accordance with state law: “If any person delivers or procures to be delivered, or has in his possession with intent to be delivered to an inmate of the Idaho State Correctional Institutions, or dependencies thereon, or upon any lands belonging to the said institution, any letter, articles or thing with the intent that an inmate confined in said institution shall obtain or receive the same, or if any person receives from any inmate of said institution any letter, article or thing with intent to convey the same out of the institution contrary to the rules and regulations thereof, and without the knowledge and permission of the Warden of said institution, or if any person shall purchase, exchange, take or receive from any inmate thereof while he may be working outside the walls of said institution, any letter article or thing, whether state or other property, manufactured or used in an about said institution without the knowledge and permission of the Warden/Deputy Warden of said institution, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $300.00 or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”

Assisting Escape
Idaho Code Section 18-2503 – Carrying a Prisoner Things to Aid Escape: “Every person who carries or sends into a prison anything useful to aid a prisoner in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of any prisoner confined therein, is guilty of a felony.”
Idaho Code 18-2504 – Private Persons Assisting in Escape: “Every person who willfully assists any prisoner confined in any prison, or in the lawful custody of any officer or person, to escape, or in an attempt to escape, from such prison or custody, is guilty of a felony.”

  Special One-time Visits

Special one-time visits will only be approved in rare circumstances. Special one-time visits are only authorized for approved visitors. The facility heard or designee must approve any special one-time visit in writing.

  Employee/offender Relationships and Visiting

Any former employee, contract vendor or volunteer who applies to visit an offender will be denied visitation with the offender for the first six (6) months after termination of employment/volunteer status with the Department of Correction.

At the conclusion of this six-month period, a person can submit an application for visitation to the facility head where the inmate is housed. The facility head will review the application, the offenders central file and any additional information he/she finds pertinent. The facility head will then do one of two things:

1. Deny the request. A denial of the visiting request may be appealed in writing to the Administrator of Operations within fourteen (14) days.
2. Make recommendation to the Administrator of Operations to approve the request for visitation. Only the Administrator of Operations can approve the visiting request.

Applicants who are denied visitation my resubmit a visitation application on an annual basis. Immediate family members who are denied visitation may resubmit every ninety (90) days.

 

INMATE MAIL

 

General mail
All mail other than special.

Special mail
Correspondence to or from the president or vice president of the United States, members of the U.S. Congress (except bulk mailing), embassies and consulates, governors, state attorneys general, U.S. Department of Justice, members of the state legislature (except bulk mailing), courts and court staff, legal departments of cities and municipalities, attorneys, Idaho Parole Commission staff, Idaho Board of Correction, and the director or facility heads of the Idaho Department of Correction.

Contraband
Items prohibited or not authorized by departmental procedures or law, specifically including, but not limited to:

• Items received in a letter or package not authorized by policy or directive.
• Received packages without prior authorization.
• Publications or items which describe the manufacture of weapons, bombs, explosives, escape materials, or the manufacture of alcohol and drugs.
• Publications or items evidencing gang involvement or activities (e.g., enemy lists, constitutions, structures, codes, signs, symbols, photographs, drawings, training material, clothing, etc.).
• Publications or items which advocate that any ethnic, racial, or religious groups are inferior for any reason and make such groups an object of ridicule and scorn; and it may be reasonably thought to precipitate violent confrontation between the recipient and any other inmate and a member or members of the targeted group. No publications will be withheld solely on the basis of their appeal to a particular ethnic, racial, or religious group.
• Publications not mailed direct from the publisher or a bookstore.
• Magazine, book, or newspaper clippings of any size, except those which refer to immediate family, such as wedding and birth announcements, obituaries, etc.
• Stickers of any kind (paper or non-paper), postage stamps, and envelopes, except stamps that were attached to the envelope for mailing and return address labels.
• Greeting cards that are padded, laminated, musical, or larger than 8"x10".
• Photographs larger than 5"x8" and those instant photographs with layers.

Authorized items
Items other than correspondence allowed to arrive through the mail (excluding packages):

• money orders or cashiers' checks.
• photocopies.
• photographs (5"x8" or smaller) except instant photographs with layers.

There is no limit on the number of photocopies of legal documents. Other documents are limited to five (5) letter size copies.

Obscene items

• Obscene is defined as depicting the actual physical contact of a person with the sexual organs of another by genital to genital, oral to genital, or anal to genital contact.
• Bestiality, child pornography, and sexual contact with a minor under age 18 are prohibited by Idaho State law and are considered obscene.
• Portrayals of violent activity in a sexual context (acts of sadomasochism emphasizing the infliction of pain) are considered obscene.