Idaho § 18-6110 - Sexual contact with a prisoner
Full text of Idaho Idaho Statutes § 18-6110 — Sexual contact with a prisoner, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 18-6110. Sexual contact with a prisoner
(1) It is a felony for any employee of the Idaho department of correction, Idaho department of juvenile corrections or any officer, employee or agent of a state, local or private correctional facility, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A , Idaho Code, to have sexual contact with a prisoner or juvenile offender, not their spouse, whether an in-state or out-of-state prisoner or juvenile offender, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A , Idaho Code.
(2) It is a felony for any supervising officer, as that term is defined in section 18-101A , Idaho Code, to knowingly have sexual contact with any parolee or probationer, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A , Idaho Code, who is not the person’s spouse.
(3) For the purposes of this section "sexual contact" means sexual intercourse, genital-genital contact, manual-anal contact, manual-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, oral-anal contact, contact between the mouth and any body part, or any willful physical contact, over or under the clothing, when the physical contact is done with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passion, or sexual desires of the actor or any other person, between persons of the same or opposite sex.
(4) Any person found guilty of sexual contact with a prisoner or juvenile offender is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not to exceed life.
[18-6110, added 1993, ch. 222, sec. 1, p. 759; am. 2000, ch. 272, sec. 9, p. 792; am. 2003, ch. 37, sec. 1, p. 157; am. 2005, ch. 177, sec. 2, p. 548; am. 2008, ch. 60, sec. 2, p. 152; am. 2009, ch. 116, sec. 1, p. 373; am. 2026, ch. 176, sec. 1, p. 815.]
Source: official Idaho text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 18-6110 ("Sexual contact with a prisoner") is part of the Idaho Statutes, the codified statutory law of Idaho. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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