HOUSE BILL No. 4184


     February 13, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Lemmons, Stallworth, Garza, DeWeese, Reeves, Hardman, Woodward, Bogardus, Williams and Waters
and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.


        A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

   "An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to
   probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, com-
   mutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional
   institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps,
   to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the super-
   vision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to
   provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a
   state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and
   duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said
   department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other
   state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain
   boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which
   are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of cer-
   tain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and
   duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to pro-
   vide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to pre-
   scribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act;
   to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this
   act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
   inconsistent with the provisions of this act,"

   (MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 69b.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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           SEC. 69B.  (1) IN EVERY STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, THE

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      DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE A TELEPHONE SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT PERMIT

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      A SINGLE VENDOR TO CONTROL THE RATES PAID BY THE RECIPIENTS OF

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      TELEPHONE CALLS PLACED BY PRISONERS, BY ALLOWING PRISONERS ACCESS

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      TO TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE NUMBERS, ALLOWING PRISONERS ACCESS TO COM-

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      PETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TO USE A PREPAID DEBIT ACCOUNT

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      SYSTEM, ALLOWING PRISONERS PROVIDERS, OR BY ANOTHER METHOD THAT

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      ACCOMPLISHES THAT PURPOSE.

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           (2) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REPORT TO THE HOUSE CRIMINAL LAW

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      AND CORRECTIONS COMMITTEE AND THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE BY

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      OCTOBER 1, 2001 ON THE STEPS IT HAS TAKEN TO COMPLY WITH THIS

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      SECTION AND ON THE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS AVAILABLE TO STATE

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      PRISONERS.































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