BOISE -- Idaho prison officials have moved a teen from an adult prison to juvenile detention despite a judge's order directing the boy to do his time in an adult facility.
Idaho Department of Correction Deputy Prison Chief Ashley Dowell says the agency told 1st District Judge Benjamin Simpson of the plans, and the judge said he wouldn't intervene unless someone files a motion.
Eldon Samuel III was just 14 when he killed his drug-addicted father and autistic younger brother in their northern Idaho home. The judge ordered the teen do all of his time in an adult prison. But a federal law requires that underage inmates be kept out of sight and sound from adult prisoners, and so Samuel would have had to spend the next few years in solitary confinement.
Dowell says the department relied on an Idaho law that allows them to move inmates to juvenile centers by agreement.
