The Idaho Department of Correction is responsible for managing felony offenders housed in prisons and supervised on probation and parole. IDOC houses inmates in ten prisons, four community reentry centers. The state also uses county jail beds and an out of state facility to house inmates. Probationers and parolees are supervised by probation and parole officers in District Offices throughout the state.
IDOC's divisions include Prisons, Probation and Parole, and Management Services.
The agency employs 1,960 staff. Most of them are correctional officers and probation and parole officers. IDOC also employs a variety of non-uniform staff. They include teachers, mental health clinicians and drug and alcohol rehabilitation specialists.