“We’re human, finally,” he added. Theo takes an opportunity to take a quick nap while sitting with his handler Johnny Valenciano in a classroom at South Idaho Correctional Institution.

Throughout the dorm men, like Valenciano and Williams, dressed in jeans and sweatshirts, go about their days with little oversight. They enter the building with keys and walk past a check-in area with ...

Valenciano is still in prison but instead of residing at the state’s highest security level prison, he is one of roughly 150 men living at the South Idaho Correctional Institution’s East Dorm ...