Somebody’s got to do it 6 nasty dirty or difficult jobs

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SOMEBODY’S GOT TO

ISP helps Gooding family after crash ALEX RIGGINS

ariggins@magicvalley.com

PAT SUTPHIN, TIMES-NEWS

Gerald Knutson butchers two hogs Oct. 31 at his mobile butchering truck on a Twin Falls farm. Knutson calls himself an artist with the knife and brings a little humor to his craft. The slogan on his truck: ‘Here comes Killer K.’

If you want to eat bacon and pork chops, somebody has to butcher the pig. Today the Times-News honors endings and beginnings by featuring a few of the people who do dirty or difficult jobs. One is a mortician whose clean, respectful cremation of a human body closes a chapter for a grieving family. Another deals with feces and bite risks for the sake of offering abandoned dogs a new chance at life. Other jobs are just plain nasty, but they’re all about making your daily life safer and more sanitary. Somebody’s got to do it. See the stories on E1.

New Idaho director of Correction plans to further prison reforms Idaho’s new director of Correction aims to keep prison reforms going RUTH BROWN

Idaho Press-Tribune

BOISE — Amid a two-year flurry of prison reform in Idaho, Henry Atencio faces the challenge of maintaining that momentum within the Idaho Department of Correction. In December, Atencio was named the Department of Correction’s new director, succeeding former director Kevin Kempf, who during his tenure oversaw a whirlwind of reform. Kempf left the department to take a new position as the exec-

utive director of the Association of State Correctional Administrators, reported the Idaho Press-Tribune. His two years as director have been marked by dramatic changes in Idaho’s correctional system, from reductions in the use of solitary confinement to changes in prison standards and releasing hundreds of non-violent offenders into parole programs as part of the state’s Justice Reinvestment Act. The reforms began when Idaho dropped its private prison contractor, Corrections Corporation of America, amid a slew of allegations around staffing and poor prison standards that led inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center, the state’s largest prison, to call it “Gladiator School.” Around the same time, in 2014,

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In this Dec. 14, 2016 photo, Henry Atencio, who has been promoted to the director of the Idaho Department of Corrections following the departure of Kevin Kempf, speaks in Boise. the state passed the Justice Reinvestment Act, which sought to

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GOODING — Tom Edwards was asleep in his home in Wheatland, Calif., when his doorbell rang at 2 a.m. on Dec. 20. When he opened the door, his heart dropped. Standing on his doorstep were deputies from the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department. “You just knew it wasn’t a good thing,” Edwards said. The deputies delivered the terrible news. Edwards’ son, 33-year-old Gooding resident Joseph Edwards, was killed in a crash; his wife, Shauna, 33, was in critical condition. The couple was driving about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 19 on Interstate 84 in Jerome when Joe lost control of his 2001 Nissan Pathfinder, Idaho State Police said. The SUV crashed into the median on Interstate 84 and caused a four-vehicle chain-reaction crash involving two semitrailers that blocked westbound lanes for nearly four hours. Joe Edwards died at the scene. Shauna Edwards was taken by ambulance to St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls, then flown to St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Boise. On Friday, nearly two weeks after the crash, she was still listed in critical condition. One of the troopers who responded to the crash that night was Sgt. Julie Donahue. “We deal with fatalities all the time,” Donahue said. “But it’s worse around Christmas.” Donahue and Mike Pohanka, a volunteer chaplain with the ISP, went to work finding Joe Edwards’ next of kin. “It took me hours to try to notify the family,” Donahue said. “We had a heck of a time trying.” Finally, she found Tom Edwards in northern California and asked deputies from his local sheriff’s department to contact him. Soon, it was clear Joe’s death and Shauna’s critical injuries would have a far-reaching impact — the couple had two daughters together and Joe had a son from another relationship. “Christmas is a time for kids,” Donahue said. “I cannot imagine, just days before Christmas, losing your dad and having your mom in critical condition.”

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