REMOTE PRISONER SUPERVISION - THE ANSWER TO IDOC STAFF SHORTAGES?
According to government sources, the Idaho Department of Correction needs hundreds more officers to be at a full force, requiring additional hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to be ripped from the hands and wallets of struggling taxpayers. As the Idaho inmate population increases, even more guards will be needed. On the other hand, maybe there are too many guards as it is. For years, administrators at the ISCC have allowed their special pet (privileged) inmates - even those with fixed life sentences - to work and play in sensitive areas without direct staff supervision. When pressed, staff [attempt] to justify these blatant security and policy breaches by arguing these inmates are being directly supervised "on camera", despite some of those areas having no cameras, or areas that cameras cannot "see". Further, according to some concerned staff, nobody knows who is doing the supervising, or to what extent - if any at all - there is actual video supervision. Ta...