Inmate walks away from South Boise Women's Correctional Center

Publish date: 2024-07-07

The inmate who walked away from the South Boise Women's Correctional Center on Wednesday is back in custody, according to IDOC.

Michelle Rene Descharme walked away from the center Wednesday afternoon.

Members of the IDOC's Special Investigations Union and the Mini-Cassia Drug Task Force found Descharme and took her into custody. She was found 165 miles away in Rupert.

She is now being held at the Mini-Cassia Criminal Justice Center in Burley.

Descharme was scheduled to be eligible for parole in 2025 and her sentence was to be discharged in 2031. Her record includes convictions for possession of a controlled substance, grand theft and forgery in Minidoka, Twin Falls, Bannock, Bingham and Ada Counties.

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