IDOC investigates inmate’s apparent suicide

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 29, 2019 — The Idaho Department of Correction is investigating the apparent suicide of an Idaho Maximum Security Institution inmate.

A correctional officer found Jason Boyd Ivey, 29, hanging in his cell at 3:53 p.m. Friday.

Ivey was pronounced dead at 11:30 a.m., Sunday, at a Boise hospital.