Man killed in prison was Lewiston graduate
Milo Warnock, 45, died after being assaulted by another inmate this month in Kuna jail
A 1996 Lewiston High School graduate died earlier this month after being assaulted by another inmate in an Idaho prison.
Milo Warnock, 45, died at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, in Kuna. He’d been assaulted by another resident at 11:08 a.m. Dec. 10. He was pronounced dead 46 minutes later.
The suspect was moved to administrative segregation (away from the general population). Idaho State Police is investigating, according to a statement from the Idaho Department of Correction. The suspect’s name has not been released.
Warnock was convicted in 2013 of a felony DUI in Gem County, and he pleaded guilty last April to an identical charge leveled in August 2021 in Ada County, less than 15 years after the original offense.
He was sentenced last July to serve a fixed sentence of two years in prison, at which time he could be eligible for parole, with a maximum sentence of 10 years, according to court documents.
The Idaho State Correctional Institution is a medium-security men’s prison with 1,446 beds. The prison “serves as the entry point for all men entering Idaho’s prison system,” according to the Idaho Department of Correction website.
Less than two weeks after Warnock’s death, a fight involving 31 prisoners broke out at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which is part of the South Boise Correctional Complex that includes the Idaho State Correctional Institution. One prisoner received non-life-threatening injuries Dec. 23. The fight was brought under control and the other facilities at the location were also placed on alert, according to the Idaho Statesman.
In June, two inmates killed another man at the maximum security prison. Junior Garcia, 26, of Idaho Falls, died after allegedly being attacked by Juan Santos-Quintero and Joshua R. Pedroza. Both were indicted by a grand jury in Ada County. Santos-Quintero has a trial scheduled for April and Pedroza pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in February, according to the Statesman.
In 2013, Corrections Corporation of America, a private company, ran the Idaho Correctional Center, which is part of the South Boise Correctional Complex, in Kuna. The Idaho Department of Correction took over the prison after a series of lawsuits and an Idaho State Police investigation into possible fraud and false staffing reports. The contract ended June 2014, according to the Associated Press.
