SOUTHEAST BOISE, Idaho — The family of a late Idaho inmate has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing the Idaho Department of Correction of failing to protect him behind bars.

Milo Warnock was jailed on a felony DUI and later beaten to death by his cellmate inside the Idaho State Correctional Center. The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court, claims IDOC violated Warnock’s constitutional rights and caused his wrongful death.

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“Milo was held by the Idaho Department of Correction on a DUI but placed with a very dangerous prisoner and ended up being brutally, savagely beaten and killed in his cell without any protection from IDOC or their staff,” said Ritchie Eppink, co-counsel for Warnock’s

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