Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 20-201 (2026)
Department of correction created.
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Department of correction created.
There is hereby created the department of correction. The state board of correction, as outlined in section 5, article X of the constitution of the state of Idaho, shall control, direct, and manage the department of correction consistent with the constitution of the state of Idaho and as required by law. The department of correction shall, for the purposes of section 20, article IV of the constitution of the state of Idaho, be an executive department of state government.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 19
cases (5 in the last 5 years), 1975–2026 · leading case: William Leer Robert Larry Emerhiser v. Al Murphy Darrell Gardner Arvin Arave, 844 F.2d 628 (9th Cir. 1988).
William Leer Robert Larry Emerhiser v. Al Murphy Darrell Gardner Arvin Arave, 844 F.2d 628 (9th Cir. 1988). “We need look no further than Idaho Code § 20-201 (1979) to conclude that the Idaho Department of Corrections is part of the state and that any judgment against the Department or its employees acting in their official capacities would have to be paid out of the state treasury.”
State v. Gee, 695 P.2d 376 (Idaho 1985). “*379 I.C. § 20-201 which establishes the board of corrections prescribed by article X, § 5 states in part, ".”
Mellinger v. Idaho Dep't of Corr., 757 P.2d 1213 (Idaho Ct. App. 1988). “The Legislature implemented this constitutional directive by enacting I.C. §§ 20-201 to -249. The Board’s prescribed powers include the power to appoint a state Commission of Pardons and Parole, I.”
State v. Dustin Thomas Armstrong, 347 P.3d 1025 (Idaho Ct. App. 2015). “The legislature implemented this constitutional directive by enacting I.C. §§ 20-201 to -249. Mellinger v. Idaho Dep’t of Corr.”
Standlee v. State, 538 P.2d 778 (Idaho 1975). “A parole merely allows the convicted party to serve part of his sentence under conditions other than those of the penitentiary. The party is not "pardoned" of his guilt, nor is a portion of his sentence "commuted.”
Gibson v. Bennett, 108 P.3d 417 (Idaho Ct. App. 2005). “See I.C. § 20-201. The legislature also has the authority to pass statutes that require the courts to impose minimum sentences for certain crimes that courts are not permitted to reduce.”
State v. Winkler, 473 P.3d 796 (Idaho 2020). “; I.C. § 20-201. Thus, the Commission’s power to grant pardons is a constitutional power.”
State v. Pizzuto, 518 P.3d 796 (Idaho 2022). “In 1969, the legislature enacted Idaho Code section 20- 210, which directed the Board of Correction to appoint five members to a newly created Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, which would exercise “all rights, powers and authority of said board of pardons as are granted…”
State v. Moore, 244 P.3d 161 (Idaho 2010). “” Idaho Code § 20-201 . Idaho Code § 20-237 requires the district court to provide the Department with a copy of a defendant’s PSI.”
Pocatello Hosp., LLC v. Corizon LLC (In Re Decision on Jt. Motion to Certify Question of Law to the Idaho Supreme Court), 444 P.3d 870 (Idaho 2018). “" I.C. § 20-201. The state board of correction, as noted previously, is "a nonpartisan board of three (3) members .”
Idaho Dep't of Corr. v. Anderson, 8 P.3d 675 (Idaho Ct. App. 2000). “1988), we recognized that because the State Board of Correction exercises its constitutional and statutory authority through the instrumentality of the Department of Correction, see I.C. § 20-201(3), the provision excluding the Board of Correction from the application of I.”
Swain v. State, 841 P.2d 448 (Idaho Ct. App. 1992). “A related concern, of course, is whether Swain’s custody classification level established by the department nevertheless should be modified in a collateral judicial proceeding.”
— Idaho Code § 20-201(3) — 2 cases
Mellinger v. Idaho Dep't of Corr., 757 P.2d 1213 (Idaho Ct. App. 1988). “The Legislature implemented this constitutional directive by enacting I.C. §§ 20-201 to -249. The Board’s prescribed powers include the power to appoint a state Commission of Pardons and Parole, I.”
Idaho Dep't of Corr. v. Anderson, 8 P.3d 675 (Idaho Ct. App. 2000). “1988), we recognized that because the State Board of Correction exercises its constitutional and statutory authority through the instrumentality of the Department of Correction, see I.C. § 20-201(3), the provision excluding the Board of Correction from the application of I.”
— Idaho Code § 20-201(8) — 1 case
Needs v. Idaho State Dep't of Corr., 766 P.2d 1280 (Idaho Ct. App. 1988).
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