Category: Dispatches
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter Oct. ’21
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Sept. ’21 WELCOME to the October issue 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, cut and paste, or print and send a copy to another. … … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter Oct. ’21”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Sept. ’21
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Aug. ’21 WELCOME to the September issue 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, cut and paste, or print and send a copy to another. … … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Sept. ’21”
8-20-21: A Homework Assignment Sent in by Mail. (Thank you, Mr. Frank)
[Received by mail 8-20-21, 01:30] 8-20-21 08:00 WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT MYSELF? I’m a highly capable wrecking ball. I’m an extremely empathic chemical flux. I feel best about myself when I’m trying to raise up others. I feel worst about myself when my actions hurt people that weren’t the people I was trying to … Continue reading “8-20-21: A Homework Assignment Sent in by Mail. (Thank you, Mr. Frank)”
Built to Scale: A COVID-Proof Reflective Reading Program with Peer Support Components. (Total Pilot Cost: $150)
[This is not my official proposal, but it’s enough to get one started if they want to do their own.] This proposal requires minimal assistance and can be scaled to adjust from one single participant to the entire population of any DOC. Some variation of this proposal will soon be submitted to the Idaho Department … Continue reading “Built to Scale: A COVID-Proof Reflective Reading Program with Peer Support Components. (Total Pilot Cost: $150)”
New IDOC Requirements: Approved Vendors for Books Have Changed [Updated 7/15/2022]
IDOC Division Chief of Prisons Chad Page informed IDOC’s resident population April 30 and again on June 17, 2021 that IDOC requirements for book vendors were changing. This change has not been reflected on IDOC’s website, nor has the change made several years ago that since has allowed for hardcover books. As a result, books … Continue reading “New IDOC Requirements: Approved Vendors for Books Have Changed [Updated 7/15/2022]”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Aug. ’21
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, July ’21 (Si Kahn Tribute Issue) WELCOME to the August issue 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, cut and paste, or print and send a … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Aug. ’21”
IDOC NOW HIRING: HAZARD PAY NOT INCLUDED
IDOC NOW HIRING Boots of all kind. No experience handling swine necessary. Public relations skills a bonus! Must be indifferent to all aspects of compassion and logic, willing to actively campaign against therapeutic and educational opportunities, and be complicit in coverups ranging from federal rights violations to hate crimes committed using state-purchased weaponry. Be the … Continue reading “IDOC NOW HIRING: HAZARD PAY NOT INCLUDED”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, July ’21 (Si Kahn Tribute Issue)
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, June 2021 WELCOME to the July issue 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, cut and paste, or print and send a copy to another. … … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, July ’21 (Si Kahn Tribute Issue)”
Frenemy Love Methods, #2
6-1-21 James, Thanks for the issue of The Old Kinetescope and the subscription you mentioned of something called The Connection. Though I’m unsure of your confusion, I suppose I can make it clear: That $10 I sent was a friendly donation–more or less, James, I was trying to pay it forward. Now, from what I’m … Continue reading “Frenemy Love Methods, #2”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, June 2021
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, May 2021 WELCOME to the June 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, cut and paste, or print and send a copy to another. … … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, June 2021”