Idaho attorney sues for release of nine Elmore County inmates due to coronavirus concerns

An Idaho Falls attorney has asked the Idaho Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of nine women being held in the Elmore County jail in unsanitary conditions during a nationwide coronavirus pandemic.

The women are being held on pending charges for nonviolent offenses, or probation or parole violations. Due to the virus outbreak and a state-mandated stay-home order, court proceedings have been reduced and the women have been unable to get court hearings since their arrests.

Poor jail conditions have put the women at risk of contracting coronavirus, attorney Nathan Olsen stated in a habeas corpus petition he filed Friday on behalf of the women.

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