Amendment #1559 to H3900

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Ms. Tyler of Boston moves to amend the bill in Section 23, in line 460, by adding after “chapter 125.” the following:- “For purposes of this section, ‘housing units’ are defined as follows: any and all administrative segregation or restrictive housing units, Hospital Service Units, Mental Health Units and General Population housing units in the facility, and any new types of housing units the department of correction or sheriffs may establish in the future.”;

and further amend said item by inserting in line 461 after the words “shall provide” the following:- “, and shall ensure adequate infrastructure (including Wifi) to provide,”;

and further amend said item by striking, in lines 464–465, the words “voice communication services shall be maximized to the extent possible,” and inserting in place thereof the following:- “each incarcerated or detained person shall be able to access voice communication services at all times to the extent that such access does not interfere with rehabilitative, educational or vocational programming or routine facility procedures”;

and further amend said item by inserting after line 473 the following item:

“(d) In all state correctional facilities, state prisons and county correctional facilities, including a jail or house of correction, that currently provide tablets that are capable of becoming calling-enabled, the department of correction and sheriffs shall enable voice communication services via these tablets, and shall ensure adequate infrastructure to provide voice communication services via these tablets. These voice communication services shall be provided free of charge to the person initiating and the person receiving the communication. A daily minimum of 200 minutes free of charge should be given to the person initiating and the person receiving the communication. When tablet calling is unavailable—because Wifi is unavailable, the tablet is damaged or lost, or for any other reason—incarcerated persons shall have access to physical phones at all times in all housing units to the extent that such access does not interfere with rehabilitative, educational or vocational programming or routine facility procedures.”

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