Permits the use of portable electronic devices for making phone calls as part of the telephone service system made available to incarcerated individuals.
Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
Telephone services for incarcerated individuals.
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage for incarcerated individuals in their cells.
State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications
Requires portable electronic devices manufactured for sale in the state to be equipped with an ATSC 3.0 chip.
State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications
Relates to required notification of an incarcerated individual's emergency contacts when such incarcerated individual experiences a serious medical event; provides that incarcerated individuals and their representatives shall have the right to access such incarcerated individual's medical records; provides requirements for access to such medical records; establishes an independent medical oversight body to monitor and evaluate the quality of medical care provided to incarcerated individuals within correctional facilities and to ensure compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements for adequate medical care; provides penalties for certain violations; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to collect data on medical incidents, response times, and correctional facility compliance with certain requirements, and to publish an annual report detailing such data.
An Act Prohibiting Any Unsolicited Telephonic Sales Calls To Individuals' Mobile Telephones Or Mobile Electronic Devices.
Requires State and private correctional facilities to allow inmates to make telephone and video calls at no cost to inmate or other party.