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Committee questions commissary markups, recreation fund use and oversight in corrections bill
Summary
The Corrections & Institutions Committee examined new bill language on commissary services and the inmate recreation fund, asking DOC for an accounting of commissary commissions, price markups, how commission revenue is directed and whether commissary revenue could be used to subsidize telecommunications.
Committee member (Speaker 1) moved the session to commissary language after telecommunications, and members spent substantial time scrutinizing the draft bill's new commissary provisions and the inmate recreation special fund.
Why it matters: the bill would codify aspects of commissary contracts and how revenue generated from commissary sales and telephone commissions is deposited and spent. Committee members said they need a clearer picture of dollar values, how funds are dispensed, who has decision-making authority, and whether those funds could be used to reduce access barriers to communications.
Committee members said the draft creates a new section governing commissary services and instructs the department to establish an inmate recreation special fund from revenues on telephone and commissary commissions and…
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