JAIL: Improve conditions for prisoners

Idaho Code 20-805 subsection A&B states a requirement that the private prison contractor provide the services in a facility which meet correctional standards satisfying constitutional minimums, state and federal laws, rules and regulations and applicable court orders, including but not limited to, all sanitation, food services, safety and health regulations; (b) A requirement that the private prison contractor send copies of reports of inspections completed by appropriate authorities regarding compliance with laws rules and regulations of the type described in subsection 2 a of this section to the governing authority of the local public entity in which the correction facility is located.

We have 60 people in this pod with only two working toilets, urinals that leak and black mold in the showers. When staff is asked for soap for the bathrooms we are denied, when staff is asked about gloves for the purposes of cleaning toilets we are laughed at. We have 50 seats at tables for mealtimes and that leaves 10 people standing. They removed the books saying that we can read on the tablets yet there are only 50 tablets which as you can imagine causes tensions. There is a form of cruel and unusual punishment being a sentenced inmate housed with county inmates who are constantly being released while I sit in a limbo. This not only messes with my psyche but causes undue stress and borderline depression. The staff breaks hypo by standing next to residents here while speaking with medical staff.

According to the before-mentioned Idaho code, food services, sanitation, safety and health regulations are not being met. They deny me and others dental and optometry services while as a state inmate I am entitled too, under statute 20-237A(3). We are denied proper sanitary products for the showers and bathrooms; there is black mold in the bathrooms and showers. In conclusion we only ask that the county bring the facilities up to the standards of the state facilities or move us to a place that meets the Idaho code. 

TYLER DOUGLAS, JAY ROTHERMEL,
and all state residents housed in Kootenai County Jail