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Orange County Sheriff Will Ask Board to Fund Updated Shooting Range
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) on April 13 will ask the Board of Supervisors to fund a major renovation for its shooting range and extend the consulting contract for a company that monitors inmates’ phone calls.
The OCSD is seeking the board’s approval to award a $7 million contract to Archico, a construction company, to upgrade the shooting range at the newly renamed Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.
“The safety of the actual range itself needs to be updated, and then they’re also expanding a little bit to be able to include more realistic scenarios,” Carrie Braun, OCSD’s public information officer, told The Epoch Times.
Calling a loved one in Colorado jails or prisons? Be prepared to pay some bucks.
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Lawmakers want transparency into costs paid by families, inmates
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:17 AM Inmates in the La Plata County Jail hang out in the dormitory area. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file
Calling a loved one in Colorado jails or prisons? Be prepared to pay some bucks. Inmates in the La Plata County Jail hang out in the dormitory area. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file
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The $9 that Jim Anthony paid for each video visit with his jailed son last year was expensive, but it was the best way he could make sure his son got to know his own child, after the coronavirus pandemic shut down in-person visits to the jail.
‘All I need is a pen, paper and the First Amendment’
During the covid-19 pandemic, CJR received a submission, via the Empowerment Avenue Writer’s Cohort, from an incarcerated writer, Kevin D. Sawyer, who explained what it’s like to be a journalist in San Quentin State Prison, in Northern California. We felt it needed no editing, and that even the means of submission typewritten, with corrections by hand helped tell his tale. So we have reproduced it below as we received it.
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SAWYER – INCARCERATED JOURNALIST
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By Kevin D. Sawyer
There’s something uniquely different about being a writer and journalist who is incarcerated, besides the obvious. Unlike freelance journalists and those who work for mainstream and corporate publications, we who are imprisoned get to bite the hand that feeds us. And we never miss a meal.
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