This is the handbook I was given in January of 2019; the year EPCF was used as a contract facility to relieve prison overcrowding in Idaho; the year I was retaliated against, as a resident of this facility, for holding the Idaho Department of Correction and the GEO Group to both Texas State and federal standards.
If you are currently visiting this handbook with questions of compliance, please also take the time to view the materials I’ve linked to below; it’s recommended you note the sections of Texas Minimum Jail Standards (TMJS) mentioned throughout. As exhausted grievances are required prior to presenting complaints to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS); I can point you to “Violations of Texas Minimum Jail Standards” to show you how it works.
I must warn here that retaliation resulting from seeking compliance can come in the form of physical retribution, deprivation of basic amenities, retaliatory transfers, and destruction or loss of personal property. I was a target of them all, courtesy of EPCF–and shame on IDOC for tacitly remaining complicit.
The TMJS can be obtained for free by download from the Texas Commission of Jail Standards website, or with a fee by request:
Texas Commission of Jail Standards
PO Box 12985
Austin, TX 78711
For your reference:
1) The Battle for Dish Soap at Eagle Pass Correctional Facility
2) Violations of Texas Minimum Jail Standards (at Eagle Pass Correctional Facility)
3) Retaliatory Transfer to Idaho
4) Following My Retaliatory Transfer to Idaho
5) First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter (Special Alert: Coronavirus Emergency)
6) First Amend This! Sept. ’20
7) First Amend This! Oct. ’20
8) Regarding Disciplinary
9) Esoterica: Entry 20 (Dear Waymon)
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