Idaho Prison Blog

written and posted by Jeff Epperson [Editor's note - While Dale Shackelford (site owner) may not like or agree with the content of all articles posted on this site, guest articles which are true and relevant to issues concerning or related to matters in the IDOC (or prisons in general) are always welcome. Submit your articles to the site by clicking POST A COMMENT, or email it to daleshackelford1@gmail.com. What do you get when you give 10 inmates a bunch of material, five sewing machines, and a few pair of scissors (that have been secured to the table of course). How about 10,000 masks! *and counting* Albert Ciccone, the brainchild of this idea, saw the need for masks and went to work. It wasn't long before his idea turned into a plan, and then into action. Soon, all of the correctional facilities in Idaho were making masks. But if you ask us, we here at I.S.C.C. make the finest masks. Let me tell you about this band of misfits that have come together to g...

THE TAKING OF JUSTICE The narrative below follows and documents disturbing incidents related to the taking of a police cruiser by a handcuffed prisoner, and the actions of government officials in what some will describe as insurance fraud, perjury, corruption and embezzlement of city funds. The names are true, they have not been changed to protect the guilty. BACKGROUND On 8/24/17, Jeffrey Epperson was arrested at his home on an agent's warrant for violating parole. Jeff was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back of a 2010 Dodge Charger - an unmarked police cruiser assigned to Wilder (Idaho) City Police Chief Dusty Tveidt. Ten minutes later, Jeff drove silently away unnoticed in the police car, having moved the cuffs from behind his back to the front and climbing through the small window in the security screen between the driver and passenger areas. Five minutes of driving, and Jeff had driven through a chained cattle gate, and almost into a river, stopped only ...

For over 2 decades, people have either asked about, wondered or believe they know what really happened to Donna Fontaine and Fred Palahniuk on May 29, 1999 on a secluded property outside Kendrick Idaho which led to Dale Shackelford spending 10 years on Idaho's Death Row. Only one person alive today knows what happened firsthand on that mountain. Documentaries have been aired, stories have been published and people in town still talk in the diners and local bars about what happened that Memorial Day weekend while the Locust Blossom Festival was in full swing. In 2005, from his prison cell, Dale committed to paper what really happened that fateful day, and sent sealed copies of the documents to people outside the walls for safe keeping. These envelopes were to be opened and disclosed to but a few people upon his death or incapacity. Dale feared his knowledge of the true happenings of that day, and what led up to them, would be lost forever to the families, friends, trial jurors, sh...