Edit: Long past time to boot CCA

In the Lewiston Tribune, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase comments:

Here’s a milestone worth celebrating: In about two months, the last of Idaho’s 173 inmates held at the Kit Carson Correctional Center at Burlington, Colo., will return home. Last week, Idaho Corrections Director Kevin Kempf told the Legislature’s budget-writing committee the declining state prison population has allowed him to take that step. “Every one of our inmates that’s sitting in a private prison in Colorado right now will be back in the state of Idaho in the next 60 days - they’re all coming back,” Kempf said. The cause is good news. Idaho has inched toward more enlightened policies that divert offenders from the prison’s front gate - as well as rehabilitation and parole reforms that are aimed at successfully helping people rejoin society. That’s brought inmate population numbers down to levels the state can handle within its own capacity. The effect, however, is even better. Kit Carson is run by Corrections Corporation of America. Yes, that CCA. More here.