Category: Dispatches

First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Apr. ’22

Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, March ’22 Welcome to the April edition of First Amend This! This publication provides an insider look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction community. If you wish to assist this effort, share the link, copy and paste, or print and send this issue to another. Friends … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Apr. ’22”

My article “The Power of Prisontation” in the Idaho Law Review

The Idaho Law Review Vol 57 issue 3 just showed up in our mailbox. Did you get yours yet? Click “The Power of Prisontation” by Patrick Irving to read the article on the University of  Idaho College of Law website .

First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, March ’22

Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. ’22 Welcome to the March edition of First Amend This! This publication provides an insider look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction community. If you wish to assist this effort, share the link, copy and paste, or print and send this issue to another. Friends … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, March ’22”

No Record of Charities, History of Donations: Who Is Secretly Benefitting from Correctional Confiscations?

[The following article appears without attachments in the March ’22 issue of First Amend This!] For decades, Idaho’s prison population has been offered the option to donate their personal property to charity. From electronics and clothing to art products and food, all of which were purchased in prison at extremely inflated costs. Mountains of gear, … Continue reading “No Record of Charities, History of Donations: Who Is Secretly Benefitting from Correctional Confiscations?”

Notice To All Current and Future Inmates In IDOC Custody: Proposed Settlement and Fairness Hearing In Class Action Lawsuit for Hepatitis Treatment

(Delivered via JPay 2-18-22) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO PHILIP A. TURNEY, et al.,Plaintiffs, vs. HENRY ATENCIO, et al.,Defendants. Case No. 1:18-CV-00001-BLW This is a Court-ordered Notice directed to members of the Class affected by the lawsuit. The purpose of this Notice is to inform Class members of a … Continue reading “Notice To All Current and Future Inmates In IDOC Custody: Proposed Settlement and Fairness Hearing In Class Action Lawsuit for Hepatitis Treatment”

New Complaints Filed Against JPay Prison Service Provider: Three Abusive Practices You Probably Ought to Know

It appears as though the $6,000,000 fine JPay recently received for consumer abuse wasn’t enough to inspire better treatment of their customers. Below are three complaints I filed which I suspect have affected many. If you feel you have been deceived or taken advantage of by JPay, please consider informing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. … Continue reading “New Complaints Filed Against JPay Prison Service Provider: Three Abusive Practices You Probably Ought to Know”

First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. ’22

Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Jan. ’22 Welcome to the February edition of First Amend This! This publication provides an insider look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction community. If you wish to assist this effort, share the link, copy and paste, or print and send this issue to another. Friends … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. ’22”

Advocate Networking Request: From the Book of Irving Prison Project

For over three years I have diligently documented the experience of living imprisoned in one of America’s most incarcerating states. Along with my prison journals, articles, collages and creative writing, video of me presenting at the 2021 Idaho Law Review Symposium, over video and in shackles, after more than a year into ad-seg, is available … Continue reading “Advocate Networking Request: From the Book of Irving Prison Project”

View my recently published work @ SolitaryWatch.org and have look at Idaho’s use of Administrative Segregation

After spending two years in what the Idaho Department of Correction refers to as “administrative segregation,” I can personally vouch for the horrible, life-changing, long-term effects that accompany excessive confinement and isolation. In 2018, the Department made a promise with a policy that, to this day, it has never implemented: To allow all clients held … Continue reading “View my recently published work @ SolitaryWatch.org and have look at Idaho’s use of Administrative Segregation”

Censorship Notice: Idaho prisoners forbidden from referring their loved ones to Idaho Statesman/Idaho Capital Sun article

Another incredibly informative article detailing court battles and concerns–and possibly uncovering a full-on conspiracy!–with the Idaho Department of Correction’s procurement of execution drugs appears to be making the Department uncomfortable. So uncomfortable, in fact, that the article’s title alone is grounds for immediate mail and messaging censorship, as found out today by our First Amend … Continue reading “Censorship Notice: Idaho prisoners forbidden from referring their loved ones to Idaho Statesman/Idaho Capital Sun article”