POCATELLO — The city of Pocatello will soon be home to an Idaho Department of Correction Community Reentry Center.

Ground was broken on the facility at 6070 South Fifth Avenue Wednesday afternoon. It will serve as a transition center for 100 minimum-custody men nearing the end of their prison sentences. The inmates can’t have any sex-related offenses, no felony detainers and won’t have any known pending felony charges or investigations.

“The whole point of a community reentry center is for people to get connected back to their home communities. What we’ll be looking to do is help people improve their family connections and get them connected back to employment,” IDOC Director Bree Derrick told EastIdahoNews.com. “Also, if there are civic or faith groups that they want to be connected to,

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