Idaho officials: Prison takeover had ‘challenges’

Published July 28, 2014 11:28pm ET



BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials say they had to have thousands of dollars’ worth of medications shipped overnight to the state’s largest prison after the former operator, Corrections Corporation of America, left the facility without a promised eight-day supply of inmate drugs.

The Idaho Department of Correction officials also say they discovered some chronically ill inmates went without needed medical care, and some medical records were missing when they assumed control of the facility.

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