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Saundra,<br><br>With regard to this statement, <font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">"</font><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">It also leads to the </font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>insane</b></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"> situation around the state of opening up the jail doors to </font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>convicted</b></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"> sexual offenders to get themselves to “therapy” and back to jail again without supervision,"</font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><br></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><br></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">-How often does this happen around the state?</font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><br></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">-What are the particulars in each instance? What is the underlying sentence, has the defendant gone on a rider?<br>-Is there any basis for the decision provided by a treatment provider?<br></font><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">-What do you mean by 'therapy?' What do your quotation marks signify?<br><br>Sunil<br></font></span><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm<br>To: reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu; deco@moscow.com<br>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:58:52 -0800<br>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Child Protective Services<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Well, the Idaho Department of Corrections budget <b>has</b> been cut:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/facts/fact_sheets/YearEndBrief.July09.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/facts/fact_sheets/YearEndBrief.July09.pdf</a></span></u></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Idaho has cut $27 million dollars from its 2009 and 2010 corrections budget, a 14 percent reduction. As a result, the department laid off 44 positions, and ordered 4 days of furloughs for prison security staff and 10 days of furloughs for all other</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">employees.”</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">See also:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/press_releases/Feb2010version2.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.idoc.idaho.gov/press_releases/Feb2010version2.pdf</a></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Department has sustained millions of dollars in budget cuts since the recession began. Through November 2009, the Department lost 10.4% in general fund dollars for personnel and 8.7% in operating funds.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The impacts are significant. The graphic to the right illustrates the 93 positions either eliminated or unfilled. All staff are taking furlough hours for a total of 80,000 hours, equivalent to another 39 positions in lost productivity.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Department can’t close a prison for a day, or stop checking on parolees; ours is a 24/7 public safety commitment.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Staffing ratios in prisons were bare bones before the furloughs and budget cuts. Furloughs increase the problem. At the minimum security facility south of Boise there are an average of 17 officers responsible for 656 inmates on any given shift.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">This attitude of “cut prison costs” is upsetting to me because it leads to repugnant decisions like contracting out staffing to for-profit private companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). As we’ve seen time & time & time again, costs <b>always</b> increase when private for-profit companies are brought in to save money (as has happened with the UI & its AlliedBarton contract), accountability suffers, and we wind up with situations like those at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC) that have forced the ACLU to file suit to protect those in custody.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It also leads to the <b>insane</b> situation around the state of opening up the jail doors to <b>convicted</b> sexual offenders to get themselves to “therapy” and back to jail again without supervision.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I don’t disagree that sentencing for some non-violent offenders is too harsh, but we also repeatedly see cases where the sentencing isn’t harsh enough, a trend that’s increased as the Idaho Department of Corrections has struggled to cope with budget cuts on top of public pressure to always cut costs on top of never being adequately funded to begin with (because people don’t give a rip about convicts).</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">And, I’m not saying that IDOC needs the money more than CPS or education! I worked for the Department of Health & Welfare and am well aware of the impossible conditions our CPS & children’s mental health workers face every single day. I value education – and appropriate funding for education – as much as anyone else & obviously more than many in this state.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">However, it’s simplistic and misguided to target IDOC, IMHO. No one is interested in my suggestions because I’m a bleeding heart liberal, but there <b>are</b> ways to deal with what’s going on with the budget in Idaho. The problem is that the Republican controlled executive & legislative branches aren’t interested in solutions that will gore their financial backers, pure & simple, IMO.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">JMHO,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Saundra Lund</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Moscow, ID</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">~ Edmund Burke</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****</span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reggie Holmquist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 07, 2011 11:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> Art Deco<br><b>Cc:</b> Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Child Protective Services</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I'm going to agree with Roger(!) here. Cuts should come from prisons. Sentences can be shortened because most of them are currently too harsh. Harsher sentences came about as a result of lobbying (mostly by "concerned parents" groups) in the 80s. Nowadays, the US holds a quarter of the world's prison population, but only 5% of the world's total population. The fact that 35-40% of Idaho prison costs are unadjustable (because they are contracted out) is also unacceptable. A private industry complex should not have been created to carry out what should be a state function (for myriad reasons).<br><br>Idaho prisons should be receiving cuts, not increases (and CCA contracts should be eliminated ASAP). CPS should not be receiving cuts. Education should not be receiving cuts. The school-to-prison pipeline needs to be destroyed.<br><br>-Reggie</p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Art Deco <<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Roger,</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What magic formula do you propose to determine the probability of reoffending of any given convicted pedophile? Do you have any idea what the estimated recidivism rates are? Or that the younger the victims and the more victims are fairly clear indices of potential reoffending?</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">w.</span></p></div><div><div><blockquote style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color black; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" title="lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen</a> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <a href="mailto:ttrail@moscow.com" title="ttrail@moscow.com">ttrail@moscow.com</a> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cc:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Monday, March 07, 2011 10:42 AM</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> [Vision2020] Child Protective Services</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Tom<br>I went to a 4-H training session in Lewiston Saturday. One of the subjects was child protection. The amount of abuse that occurs in relation to children is shocking. I do not know where things stand on the budget, but I would encourage everyone to make sure that there are no cuts in Child Protective Services. This is a area that needs attention. There are other areas that can be legitimately cut. One would be the prision budget. It costs a lot of money to keep people in prision. Except for those that are a danger to society and should never be released, it is questionable to keep people locked up for a long period of time. It may be fine for a short sentence as punishment, but there should be better ways to deal with those that are not a physical treat to society. <br>Again Child Protective Services needs to stay fully funded.<br><br>Roger<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</p></blockquote></div></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================</p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. 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