Category: Dispatches
First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, Aug. ’24
Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, July ’24 Welcome to the August 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. Loved … Continue reading “First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, Aug. ’24”
Introducing: Idaho Families for Sentencing Integrity. Motivated members wanted!
From the advocate group Idaho Families for Sentencing Integrity: Greetings, Idaho Families for Sentencing Integrity (IFSI) is a newly formed group of committed citizens with loved ones that have been impacted by incarceration in Idaho. IFSI advocates for policy changes in Idaho that decrease incarceration, reduce recidivism, and improve Idaho’s justice system–particularly for those with … Continue reading “Introducing: Idaho Families for Sentencing Integrity. Motivated members wanted!”
First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, July ’24
Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, June ’24 Welcome to the July 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. Loved ones … Continue reading “First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, July ’24”
First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, June ’24
Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, May ’24 Welcome to the June 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, copy and paste, or print and send this issue to another. Loved … Continue reading “First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, June ’24”
2024 Commissary Pricelist for Idaho Prisons and the Special Online Handshake for the New National Commissary Database
Keefe Commissary has again increased its rates. This time by 3.2%, in accordance with the Consumer Price Index. Download the new IDOC commissary pricelist Those interested in comparing the commissary prices in Idaho prisons with prisons in 45 other states can do so by visiting the newly unveiled national commissary database created by The Appeal. … Continue reading “2024 Commissary Pricelist for Idaho Prisons and the Special Online Handshake for the New National Commissary Database”
Public Safety Benefits from Prison Art and Writing
Had New York Focus reporter Chris Gelardi last year not exposed a directive issued by New York corrections department to severely inhibit the flow of art and writing leaving its facilities, the department may have inspired carceral agencies across the U.S. to adopt its short-lived blueprint. To view the potential dangers created by such directives, … Continue reading “Public Safety Benefits from Prison Art and Writing”
IDOC refuses to disclose spending proposals/pilot programs for Idaho Opioid Settlement funds
[Revised June 20, 2024] In January I submitted a public records request to determine whether the IDOC is seeking to apply any portion of the state’s Opioid Settlement Fund towards opioid overdose prevention and mitigation. The state is projected to receive $218 million of the $54 billion national settlement that is scheduled to be paid … Continue reading “IDOC refuses to disclose spending proposals/pilot programs for Idaho Opioid Settlement funds”
First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, May ’24
Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, April ’24 Welcome to the May 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. Loved … Continue reading “First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, May ’24”
The Appeal Launches New National Database for Prison Commissary Pricelists, Cory Doctorow Shines Light on Securus’s Potential Bankruptcy
Thanks to Cory Doctorow for bringing to our attention in the “Greedflation, but for prisoners” issue of his daily newsletter that The Appeal has unveiled a new national commissary pricelist database, which can be used to compare how items are priced across 46 states. Kudos to Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Ethan Corey and everyone else who contributed … Continue reading “The Appeal Launches New National Database for Prison Commissary Pricelists, Cory Doctorow Shines Light on Securus’s Potential Bankruptcy”
First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, April ’24
Previous: First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, March ’24 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. Loved ones … Continue reading “First Amend This! An IDOC Newsletter, April ’24”