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Prison Overcrowding Is Keeping Idaho Women Behind Bars Even After They’re Granted Parole – WTOP News

State prisons are full, leaving 186 women in county jails without required counseling and classes, according to the Department of Correction.

It was Friday the 13th when Andrea Johnson heard the news from a friend over a muffled telephone receiver from the county jail in Cascade, Idaho. After 16 months behind bars, Johnson had been granted parole. “I was anxious, but I was hopeful,” Johnson, 46, said. “I was excited. Why wouldn’t they let me out?” But there was a catch, her friend said in March: Johnson would have to spend at least another year locked up. Idaho parole commissioners ga…

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Prison overcrowding is keeping Idaho women behind bars even after they’re granted parole

It was Friday the 13th when Andrea Johnson heard the news from a friend over a muffled telephone receiver from the county jail in Cascade, Idaho. After 16 months behind bars, Johnson had been granted parole.

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Winnipeg Free Press broke the news in Winnipeg, Canada on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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