On any given day at the Ada County Jail, inmates on kitchen duty are on the hook to prepare thousands of meals: three squares for their fellow inmates, along with bagged lunches for those at the ...

The Ada County Jail saw its first positive case of COVID-19 last week. The Ada County Jail has confirmed that 68 inmates have tested positive for coronavirus, but they’ve tested 293 inmates.

After the failure of a $49 million bond to expand the Ada County jail, Sheriff Matt Clifford said they will “keep playing Tetris with inmates.” The bond, which fell just short of the necessary ...

BOISE -- An expanded Internet program at the Ada County Jail has inmates eager to go online, and it's expected to make money for the county while improving visitation services. Those in the Ada ...

Dustin Gardner has been at the Ada County Jail for eight months. In that time, a lot of people have come to the jail for a variety of reasons. Lately, there have been more inmates than beds available.

Inmates are escorted through the corridors of the Health Services Unit at the Ada County Jail, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.

BOISE — One month after the first jail inmate tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Ada County Jail had more than 220 positive cases in the facility. A total of 224 inmates had tested ...

BOISE, Idaho — It didn't take long for COVID-19 to spread inside the Ada County Jail. Officials say 68 inmates in the jail have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The first ...

Inmates sleep in a cell in the medium custody section of the Ada County Jail, Oct. 17, 2023. The jail’s infrastructure is from 1995, even as the number of its inmates has doubled.