Inmate dies at Idaho Maximum Security Institution

IDOC has sent this news release to all news media statewide.

BOISE, Aug. 30, 2016 — At the request of the Idaho Department of Correction, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of an inmate at Idaho Maximum Security Institution.

At 5:21 a.m., an IMSI staff member found 62-year-old Roger Vincent Arellano, IDOC #17644, unresponsive in his cell.

IDOC asks the Ada County Sheriff’s Office to investigate all unattended deaths of inmates in the South Boise Correctional Complex.

IMSI is a 516-bed, maximum-security, men’s prison south of Boise.