Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter (Special Corrector’s Edition)
Welcome to the May issue of First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter that addresses Idaho Corrections concerns.
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This publication provides an insider’s look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction’s community. If you wish to assist this effort, share the link, cut and paste, or print and send a copy to another
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Our Mission: To better develop our current state of Corrections
EDITOR’S NOTE
You may have noticed I’ve been experimenting with formats and special editions. The reason for this is because I can.
And though our state of Corrections is no laughing matter, sometimes presenting with a chuckle is the best way to acknowledge the sheer ridiculousness of how some folks comfortably market their maintaining-human-interest.
So in case you missed it, recently I Freaky Fridayed an issue and gave the powers that be their own Special Corrector’s Edition.
Before that I brought you the utterly factual and incredibly concerning “Special Alert: Coronavirus Emergency” issue.
If you missed either of those, they’re worth catching up on and sharing with a friend.
It’s important to note that the goal of this publication is not to be revolutionary. Too many out there do that already, and those of us involved in this posting really enjoy the privilege to fly.
It should also be known that the resources and knowledge it takes to consistently produce professionalism aren’t always accessible from the throes of Solitary Confinement. And since this publication has known no other life, well, that should explain quite a lot.
With an understanding that a disproportionate amount of our audience comes from overseas, other states, and with interests in Book of Irving projects sharing our site, the best I can hope for with FAT! is to fashion a historical record for my friend, Google, to fit up multiple asses, in the most entertaining way possible.
If everyone is cool with that, and I know that you are, then I’m happy to say on all our behalves, “Party on, Wayne,” “Party on, Garth,” and kick off another edition of First Amend This!
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WHAT ARE THE NELSON MANDELA RULES?
After hearing them referenced as mandate on several occasions, we finally took a look for ourselves.
Now in our possession, we can tell you the Nelson Mandela Rules are the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, adopted December 17, 2015, as a General Assembly Resolution, and unfortunately, to this reviewer’s understanding, appear to have all the weight of a reasonable suggestion.
The 34-page document is comprised of 122 rules and four preliminary observations that describe their use. The preliminary observations are exactly as follows:
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION 1
The following rules are not intended to describe in detail a model system of penal institutions. They seek only, on the basis of the general consensus of contemporary thought and the essential elements of the most adequate systems of today, to set out what is generally accepted as being good principles and practice in the treatment of prisoners and prison management.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION 2
1. In view of the great variety of legal, social, economic and geographical conditions in the world, it is evident that not all of the rules are capable of application in all places and at all times. They should, however, serve to stimulate a constant endeavor to overcome practical difficulties in the way of their application, in the knowledge that they represent, as whole, the minimum conditions which are accepted as suitable by the United Nations.
2. On the other hand, the rules cover a field in which thought is constantly developing. They are not intended to preclude experiment and practices, provided these are in harmony with the principles and seek to further purposes which derive from the text of the rules as a whole. It will always be justifiable for the central prison administration to authorize departures from the rules in this spirit.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION 3
1. Part I of the rules covers the general management of prisons, and is applicable to all categories of prisoners, criminal or civil, untried or convicted, including prisoners subject to “security measures” or corrective measures ordered by the judge.
2. Part II contains rules applicable only to the special categories dealt with in each section. Nevertheless, the rules under section A, applicable to prisoners under sentence, shall be equally applicable to categories of prisoners deadly with in sections B, C and D, provided they do not conflict with the rules governing those categories and are for their benefit.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION 4
1. The rules do not seek to regulate the management of institutions set aside for young persons such as juvenile detention facilities or correctional schools, but in general part I would be equally applicable in such institutions.
2. The category of young prisoners should include at least all young persons who come within the jurisdiction of juvenile courts. As a rule, such young persons should not be sentenced to imprisonment.
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This reporter summarizes: The United Nations may or may not have smoked a joint and said, “You know what would be really cool?” and then wrote it down in tribute to Nelson Mandela.
However unproductive that may seem while undergoing correction in the USofA, this reporter can confirm that the mere suspicion a prisoner has somehow obtained real-world information, when organized with numerals and structural sense, is of itself a threat. It is in this fashion that others rumor certain benefits of this proclamation to be ascertainable.
And while this reporter has so far only witnessed one Skinhead citing the aforementioned ideology knowingly attributed to Mandella, he would never dissuade the rest from exercising their right to do so.
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IMSI IMPROVES RESPONSE TIME FOR POLICY REQUESTS
Policy deliveries in at least part of the facility have seen noticeable improvements since March, when medical policy requests went unattended to for three weeks following multiple inquiries ahead of the ‘rona.
However inmates cycling through Restricted Housing are still reporting General Population officers citing policies and then withholding said policies upon offender requests to confirm their reference.
The policy number for Policy and SOP Management is 103.00.01.003
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POSSIBLE SHAWSHANK ESCAPE AT GEO GROUP’S EAGLE PASS CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
IDOC spokesman, Jeff Ray, provided confirmation in a 4/20 Tommy Simmons article that a water main at EPCF had been damaged April 17, forcing the facility to lose water pressure.
The Eagle Pass Fire Department then suspiciously responded to the scene, under the guise of providing a 40-thousand gallon water tank — which would have been large enough for multiple inmates to hide in until Saturday evening, when the water was restored.
As everyone by now is familiar with the movie, it’s not unreasonable to suspect that someone got fed-up with helping Warden Waymon Barry cheat on his taxes.
Because FAT! has already highlighted Contract Monitors Monte Hansen and Tim Higgins’s readiness to fudge paperwork, along with that big boner Barry’s keen ability to refrain from truth-telling during Steve Darilek and the Texas Commission of Jail Standards’ official investigation of unrelated incidents, we question the authenticity of all inmate counts from the time the purported water main break occurred.
It is also assumed that April 18th’s sack lunches and hot dinners were provided as bribes to the inmates, along with the buckets of water they were given to flush their toilets, to keep Idaho news coverage from knowing the true potential for damage and uprising — the same way they did November ’18, when dozens of inmates were charged with minimal offenses after participating in riots, despite IDOC’s intent on modifying their Creating A Distrubance charges to a much more serious Group Disruption Level 2 Enhancement when they come home from Texas.
Having observed the 2018 situation firsthand, this reporter can only speculate that IDOC minimized the events on paper to prevent the official record from alerting the public to the deteriorating mental conditions of what were once Idaho’s best behaved medium-security inmates, prior to GEO Group housing them on the deadly Rio Grande, whose total body count remains unknown.
INTERPOLATION
We now consider it hereby acknowledged that those inmate charges were processed using the disciplinary procedure in the EPCF Inmate Handbook — up until their attempts to appeal, which were all denied citing an Idaho policy clearly not in play — making all charges invalid as the Inmate Handbook didn’t then and likely doesn’t still reflect the facility’s daily operations, to include the disciplinary policy EPCF is obligated to uphold, according to IDOC Agreement Number A18-002, section 5.5, which states all charges are to be processed in accordance with IDOC Policy 318.02.01.001 (Disciplinary Procedures). In addition to denying inmates involved in 2018’s group disruptions their disciplinary process under Texas and Idaho requirements, that GEO Group didn’t give them copies of their charges or impartial hearings violated their Federal Disciplinary Due Process Rights too.
If that isn’t enough, EPCF’s failure to include Policy 318 in the Inmate Handbook violated Texas Minimum Jail Standards § 283.1 and 283.2, as well.
When IDOC’s Jack Fraser was asked to respond to this miscarriage of justice, his message was simple: “[Honey badger don’t give a shit.]”
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PAYING IT FORWARD
Shout out to the immigration holds at Karnes County Correctional Center. If ever I’m in your neighborhood again, don’t forget I shared this Irving Prime hack:
Need a few items from your local emporium but the rec moves and porters are all done for the day? Have your neighbors push their broom through the bars to your port’s button, wait for the intercom click and say, “Rodriguez, [and your door number].”
Good twice a day for at least six months, when you make it to the Ladies’ Wing, be sure to ask this: “¿Cuántas parejas sexuales tiene?”
When the bebé arrives masculino, nombre the hombre Patricio!
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RUMOR CONTROL FROM THE DERECTOR
Hey all —
Contrary to what you’ve all heard, Karnes County Correctional Center and Eagle Pass Correctional Facility were both constructed on this side of the border. While logistically it is possible to move large deteriorating buildings in such a manner that they can be Frankensteined back together, that’s not at all what we did in Texas.
While we understand there are certain resemblances in our Texas facilities to those of their southern neighbors, i.e. the water, the help, the basic lack of civil liberties, it’s just completely unreasonable to suggest that we could move such obviously incompatible foreign structures across a border that Supreme Ruler Trump seems fit to guard so well.
So let’s all do our part and set the record straight. Okay, guys?
Aside from that, I’m so proud of you this month. Keep washing your hands and trying not to die!
— J Dizzle
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