Category: Dispatches
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter (Special Alert: Coronavirus Emergency)
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Mar 2020 WELCOME to the IDOC IS NOT PREPARED FOR THE CORONAVIRUS issue of First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter that addresses Idaho Corrections concerns. Brought to you by the Captive Perspective and made available at bookofirving82431.com. This publication provides an insider’s look at issues affecting the Idaho … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter (Special Alert: Coronavirus Emergency)”
Journalistic Camaraderie
3-11-20 BW, Slow news week, huh? “IDOC Conducts Damage Control by Censoring Local News Coverage — Leaving Inmates to Wonder, Is Director Josh Tewalt the Angel of Death?” Don’t tell anyone. PI
Breaking News: IDOC Conducts Damage Control by Censoring Local News Coverage — Leaving Inmates to Wonder, Is Director Josh Tewalt the Angel of Death?
by Patrick Irving 82431 3-11-20 8:00 a.m. The Idaho Department of Correction is commencing damage control in response to recent news coverage. Specifically, the March 5th Tommy Simmons article, “Idaho Faces Another Lawsuit Over Lethal Injection Secrecy” at idahopress.com — which spotlighted Director Josh Tewalt’s questionable purchase of lethal injection drugs in 2012 — and … Continue reading “Breaking News: IDOC Conducts Damage Control by Censoring Local News Coverage — Leaving Inmates to Wonder, Is Director Josh Tewalt the Angel of Death?”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Mar. 2020
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. 2020 WELCOME to the March issue of First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter that addresses Idaho Corrections concerns. Brought to you by the Captive Perspective and made available at bookofirving82431.com. This publication provides an insider’s look at issues affecting the Idaho Department of Correction’s community. If you … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Mar. 2020”
Excessive Use of Tort #3
2-16-20 (1of3) Dear Ada County Clerk: I need to file a Small Claim but cannot access you in person or online. I understand there is a $69 filing fee but have no info on process-serving fees. Do I pay for all the fees at the same time or will you bill me for them? Please … Continue reading “Excessive Use of Tort #3”
Dear Friendly Stranger
2-03-20 Dear Stranger, Your books have arrived. Ethics For Public Communication will be absorbed immediately, and as a much-needed compliment to the Generalization in Ethics that I recently checked out from the library. This one also reaches me during a period of personal deliberation: I have responsibilities yet to be considered, likely to parties that … Continue reading “Dear Friendly Stranger”
First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. 2020
Previous: First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Jan. 2020 WELCOME to the February issue of First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter that addresses Idaho Corrections concerns. Brought to you by The Captive Perspective and made available by bookofirving82431.com. This publication provides an insider’s look at issues affecting our Idaho Department of Correction’s community. If you … Continue reading “First Amend This!: An IDOC Newsletter, Feb. 2020”
Friends At The Prison Library Project
The Prison Library Project 915-C W. Foothill Blvd., PMB 128 Claremont, CA 91711-3356 1-20-20 Dear PLP: The English/Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms was useful for understanding the concerns of others during my project. And I also pulled from it while writing The Congener Interludes, Op.1: Sonatina of Intrigue, No. 2. So thank you! You’re … Continue reading “Friends At The Prison Library Project”
Censorship Schmensorship
IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION Inmate Concern Form Inmate: Irving 82431 Date: 1-21-20 To: Chief of Prisons Chad Page Cc: Mike — Keefe As you may or may not know, I’ve been doing communication with Idaho’s press and legislature, lately. But exercising my civic responsibilities the way that I do, well, that requires you to stop … Continue reading “Censorship Schmensorship”
#BlackfootChallenge
1-18-20 Dear State Hospital South, It’s been a little over five years since I’ve cycled through your facility. Only thirty-four more and I shed the amalgam I wore when we met. Lately I’ve enjoyed writing people letters: Authors, advocates, legislators, the occasional stranger that wants to say hi. While I’m in a much better state … Continue reading “#BlackfootChallenge”