SOUTH BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Correction is taking a closer look at sexual safety inside its prisons at the request of Governor Brad Little, following allegations from a former inmate who says she endured years of sexual abuse by correctional officers.

Andrea Weiskircher, who spent 20 years incarcerated in Idaho, told Idaho News 6 that abuse became so common she no longer recognized how wrong it was.

“I came to prison when I was 19. I'm 43 now. So I've done 20 years… There's a lot of things that go on in the prison that shouldn't happen,” Weiskircher said.

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Weiskircher wrote multiple letters to

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