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91 / 62 Summer Heat Hola, baby Different swim meet results How Magic Valley’s different strokes Partly cloudy. cultures welcome children Family Life 1 Sports 1 Business 6 HARD TO FIND >>> High-tech jobs remain elusive in southern Idaho, BUSINESS 1 SAUNDAYNYDAY Anydate,July 11, 2010 2010 TIMES-NEWS $1.50 Magicvalley.com A GROWING PROBLEM Twin Falls County Jail bracing for inmate increase, space crunch ASHLEY SMITH/Times-News Idaho Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Cory By Bradley Guire Beverly looks at fellow soldiers and family Times-News writer Custer County Twin Falls County Jail members before being sandwiched by pies 1 inmate during a Magic Valley Armed Forces Day Twin Falls County fundraiser Saturday at Nat Soo Pah Hot sheriff’s deputies recent- inmate head count ly tossed around a Secure and minimum-custody beds: 178 Springs & RV Park east of Hollister. tongue-in-cheek adage 93 On Wednesday the Twin Falls County about the reality of local Sheriff's Office listed 162 inmates correctional facilities and housed in-county with 16 open beds for the inmates they hold — new bookings. Thirteen more inmates Guardsmen “If you build it, they will were listed as held outside the county come.” jail. Here's where those inmates were Of course, there that day. remains a good chance let their that as Magic Valley jails such as those in Jerome and Twin Blaine County Falls counties swell with 2 inmates guard down inmates, even if you dont build it, theyll come anyway. Pre-deployment support Twin Falls 93 County Jail is event a time of camaraderie edging toward full capacity in By Eric Larsen its 20-year- Times-News writer old facility, which has 154 HOLLISTER — Gathered in a tight secure beds for huddle, the guardsmen pooled their long-term ammo. holds, 24 min- 75 Twenty here, another five there. How imum-cus- much was it? One hundred five? tody beds for “One hundred five!” a soldier shout- misdemeanor offenders and ed,his fist clinched around a wad of bills. 49 program beds for inmates in Gooding County Staff Sgt. Cory Beverly was next up in work-release and other treat- 6 inmates the free-fire ment programs. Sheriff Tom 26 zone. He sat Carter and Capt. Doug Hughes, smiling, who oversees Twin Falls Countys Jerome County watching as jail, have projected inmate num- his daughter bers through 2015 and said that in 1 inmate 93 Katelyn held a 2012, the jail will face a shortage of pie in front of him.In the periphery to his secure beds. Mini-Cassia Criminal right, another hand and another pie. Yet In 2009 the jail saw 6,747 bookings Justice Center (Burley) another behind him. and housed an average of 11 inmates per 1 inmate They hit almost consecutively, the day in other jails and treatment facilities. Twin Falls County Graphic by soft slap of whipped cream on skin According to Hughes projections, the jail 162 inmates 84 SANDY SALAS drowned out by the cheers of Beverlys will see 9,557 inmates booked in during /file photos peers. 2012, which will necessitate 47 inmates per The $105 Beverlys fellow military day to be housed outside the county lockup. Canyon View Behavioral police raised was part of the $1,082 The sheriff’s office projections assume there Health Services (Twin Falls) Saturdays pie raffle raised during Magic will be no change in the number of beds in the coun- Valley Armed Forces Day at Nat Soo Pah ty’s facility. 1 inmate Hot Springs & RV Park east of Hollister. “We need to solve this now before we have a problem like As members of the Idaho Army what Canyon (County) is going through,”said Carter, referring to National Guards 116th Cavalry Brigade overcrowding issues in Canyon Countys jail that led six inmates Combat Team prepare to deploy to Iraq represented by the American Civil Liberties Union to file a class- in support of Operation New Dawn, action lawsuit against the county. events like Saturdays help gather funds Heres a snapshot of the current jail situation in Twin Falls for those not headed overseas — the County: The sheriff’s website listed 162 inmates held in the countys spouses, children and other family jail on Wednesday.That head count accounts for the inmate popula- members who sacrifice contact with tion in the jails combined 178 secure and minimum-custody beds. their loved ones through the deploy- Hughes said he tries to keep 10 beds open per day to handle new ment. bookings. “It’s all in good fun and for a good Also on Wednesday,13 inmates were listed as “temporary out of cus- cause — for family assistance pro- tody,”or housed offsite. If those inmates were housed at the county grams,”Beverly said while picking bits See JAIL, Main 7 See GUARD, Main 2 Sockeye take step back from the brink Troops see challenge Biologists see success in recovery efforts of taming Kandahar By Eric Barker one,’’ he said. “These things The Lewiston Tribune are pounding through right By David Zucchino Afghan government has now.’’ Los Angeles Times refused to build. LOWER GRANITE DAM Peterson, a fisheries biolo- Adams promised to pass — Mike Peterson saw some- gist for the Idaho KANDAHAR, Afghan- the complaint up the chain thing hed never seen before Department of Fish and istan — Rahmatullah, a to his military superiors. at Lower Granite Dams fish Game, has spent a lot of time slender Afghan engineer But Rahmatullah simply window. looking at fish here. When he who lives in Kandahar city, sighed and said: “Im sorry, Then he saw another, and was in graduate school at the tried to be polite when sir. I’ve been here six years. another. By the time a half- University of Idaho he used to young Shawn Adams of Ive heard these promises hour had gone by on Tuesday visit the ladder every few Digby, Nova Scotia, offered so many times I dont about 10 sockeye salmon, the weeks to watch steelhead and to help his efforts to build a believe them anymore.’“ most endangered salmon chinook salmon. He would local school. The encounter exposed species in the Columbia River sit for hours mesmerized by Sgt. Adams, 23, was the limits of good inten- basin, swam past the win- the fish. leading a Canadian foot tions in Kandahar, a city dow. He even visited in July patrol when he encoun- dominated by the Taliban, “I would never have hoping to see a sockeye. Lewiston Tribune/AP photo tered Rahmatullah, who ill-served by a corrupt gov- thought I could be here and But sockeye were the rarest Dan Green of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game loads one of complained that he and his ernment, and patrolled by see a sockeye come through four sockeye salmon into a tank mounted on a truck for transport neighbors had donated See SOCKEYE, Main 7 KANDAHAR the window. There is another to the Eagle Fish Hatchery in Lewiston on Tuesday. land for a school that the See , Main 4 Bridge ................Classified 6 Kids Only ........Family Life 6 Obituaries ............Busines 4 Crossword ........Classified 2 Jumble ..............Classified 8 Sudoku ..............Classified 7 WANTING TO KEEP THE 17TH Dear Abby..........Classified 4 Movies ..................Opinion 7 Your Business ....Business 2 Crapo, Risch oppose GOP plan > Business 6 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Sunday, July 11, 2010 BRIEFINGBRIEF- Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Mannie’s Jamboree and Arts in the Park, Pat Marcantonio jamboree begins at 10 a.m., Arts in the Park FIND MORE ONLINE open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lincoln County • “Rally in the Valley,” 5 p.m. at Festival Meadow Courthouse grounds, 111 W. B St., Check out our online calendar where you hosted by Snake River Bros, on Sun Valley Road. Free Shoshone, includes horse-drawn wagon can submit events and search by category features music and more all admission and parking. rides, Union Pacific with rides on the day at Murtaugh Lake Park. Then stick around for the for specific events and dates. Operation Lifesaver train and food vendors, Proceeds help children in Jazz in the Park concert, no cost, 720-3358 or 308-5052. www.magicvalley.com/app/calendar/events/ need. Cost is $15 to $20. from 6 to 8 p.m. in Rotary Christian recording artist Scott Riggan in • The always entertaining Park on Warm Springs and concert, presented by East End Ministerial Idaho Old Time Fiddlers Saddle roads. Free admis- Snake River Bros., bands, rodeo, gambler’s MUSEUMS Association, 1 p.m., Kimberly City Park, no perform at noon and after sion. run and raffles are highlights of this three cost, 423-5334. Rock Creek Station and Stricker homesite the 1 p.m. luncheon at West day event, 8 a.m., Murtaugh Lake Park, pro- “Miz Saigon,” by Sun Valley Opera, featuring guided tour, 1 to 4 p.m., 5 miles south of End Senior Citizens Center, Have your own pick to ceeds help raise money for children in need, songs from Broadway musicals “Miss Hansen, no cost, 731-3895. 1010 Main St., Buhl. It’s free share? Something unique to $20 adults, $15 children 10-18 years old, no Saigon” and “Les Miserables,”with music to listen. the area and that may sur- cost for children younger than 10, 404- director Brett Strader, and performed by To have an event listed, please submit the • Catch the Ketchum Arts prise people? E-mail me at 6020, [email protected] or five singers, 8 p.m., Sun Valley Pavilion, name of the event, a brief description, time, Festival from 10 a.m.