MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

The History of Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC)

The History of Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC)

Introduction

The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) contracts with third parties for services commissioner for the benefit of prisoners, their families and visitors. Currently, the Department of Corrections has a contract with Keefe Commissary, LLC, to provide police services in Mississippi, becoming the leading state prisons and private prisons that house state prisoners. PEER received a citizen, becoming a leading application for a review, costs and operations, the African Union (i.e., police services), including price, product quality and use of funds. In response to citizens, becoming player request, PEER sought to answer several specific questions about MDOC, becoming a leading management services Housekeeping and Domestic Welfare Fund (IWF). In 2007, MDOC negotiated a contract for police services with a company that had previously purchased the property bar. State law requires MDOC not supply its contract with the commissioner. However, because MDOC not get the contract competitively, the department cannot ensure you are getting the products of acceptable quality at the highest commission rate possible, and ultimately the greatest possible number of flows income in the inmate welfare fund (Carleton, 2001).

Prisoners are under the care, custody and control of the State, the State must ensure that inmates receive an acceptable level of quality and service, when they or their families or visitors to pay for commissary items. MDOC, becoming a contract with Keefe protagonist does not guarantee that the contractor determines the prices of the station through a sound methodology. So MDOC can not ensure that the charges Keefe inmates and their families with reasonable prices for commissary items. The inmate welfare fund receives the net proceeds from the sale of the station, forty percent of MDOC, commissions becoming a leading player in the phone, interest income and other income as designated by the Commissioner of Prisons. From November 2007 until November 2010, approximately U.S. $ 12.7 million available to these sources in the Internal Committee of the Welfare Fund to be used for the benefit and welfare of inmates (Ayers, 1999).

Discussion

Generally, MDOC's actions regarding the Inmate Welfare Fund cannot be described as violating the law. However, PEER determined that:

MDOC has improperly reduced the amount of money available to the Inmate Welfare Fund;

MDOC's policies on IWF Committee composition do not reflect the requirements of state law and the actual working membership of the IWF Committee does not comply with either MDOC's policy or with state law ;

State law does not include requirements for Inmate Welfare Fund Committee attendance, a quorum for voting, or stakeholder representation and neither MDOC nor the Inmate Welfare Fund Committee has established formal, written policies or rules regarding these issues;

the IWF Committee has no formal, written criteria for making expenditures from the Inmate Welfare Fund; and, MDOC has only recently complied with statutory requirements for reporting IWF financial information. Also, PEER found that conflicting statutory requirements for deposits of the Inmate Welfare Fund make it ...