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Incoming Idaho corrections director outlines priorities: staff wellness, contraband, bed shortfall and transparency
Summary
Bree Derrick, the incoming director of the Idaho Department of Correction, told the House Judiciary and Rules Committee she will prioritize partnerships with local law enforcement, staff wellness, transparency and addressing a roughly 1,500-person bed shortfall as she assumes the post in April.
Good afternoon, Chairman Skog and members of the committee. My name is Bree Derrick and as the chairman said I'm the incoming director for the Idaho Department of Correction, the incoming director told the House Judiciary and Rules Committee, adding she will take the helm officially in April.
Derrick said the Idaho Department of Correction employs about 2,200 people and supervises roughly 9,800 people in 10 state prisons and five community reentry centers, plus people on felony supervision and others housed out of state. "We have more than 16,000 people who are currently on supervision," she said.
The nut graf: Derrick outlined what she described as the agency's primary challenges and several areas of progress — a staff-recruitment success she called notable, a rise in contraband brought into facilities, and a continuing shortfall of beds that leaves about 1,500 people under IDOC jurisdiction…
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