2005-06-20
DEFINING INDIGENCE
Correctional facilities have some odd ways of defining who is poor | Massachusetts: "The institutional Treasurer shall denote indigent inmates which is defined pursuant to 103 C.M.R. 405.18 as one who has had less that [sic] ten dollars in his/her account for the preceding sixty days prior to the date of collection"
There's more to this story... as time goes along ¶ 23:35
Correctional facilities have some odd ways of defining who is poor | Massachusetts: "The institutional Treasurer shall denote indigent inmates which is defined pursuant to 103 C.M.R. 405.18 as one who has had less that [sic] ten dollars in his/her account for the preceding sixty days prior to the date of collection"
Here's what an indigent Massachusetts inmate can have [not that he'll get it]In Connecticut, so I'm told, an inmate seeking DOC documents through Freedom of Information [FOI] request is automatically taken off the "indigents" list |
If a request for clothing is approved, the inmate may receive scrubs, and two pairs of the canvas footwear in a six month period. Thermal underwear is issued only to outside workers. If a request for personal hygiene supplies is approved, the inmate may receive two bars of soap per month, two disposable razors per month, two tubes of toothpaste per month and one toothbrush per quarter. Indigent inmates may mail three personal letter per week free of charge. No inmate receives deodorant, shampoo, shaving cream, tissues, aspirin, nonprescription cold remedies or writing materials. All of these items are, of course, available for purchase in the canteen. The record this establishes that inmates who do not qualify as indigent under the DOC standard receive some, but not all, necessary clothing free of charge and do not receive any of the supplies which are necessary to maintain a basic standard of personal hygiene. |
There's more to this story... as time goes along ¶ 23:35
