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Hybrid Design Offers Direct Supervision With Remote Staff & Camera Backup
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The PREA: Interpretation and Analysis
The September 2005 issue of On The Line, a publication of the American Correctional Association, takes a look at the PREA.
Nearly 2 Years After P.L. 108-79, Sexual Violence Still A Real Problem
On September 4, 2003 President George W. Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. In part this law requires that incidents of sexual violence are recorded and annually reported.
Reno Gazette- Journal - Inmate Rape
“A lot of federal funding is tied to performance on this issue,” Schlottman said. “It’s not optional.”
Startling New Video From the National Institute of Corrections
Press Release Report - June 29, 2005
RE: Gadii’ahi Chapter Navajo Nation meeting on corrections as an economic development tool.
BIA Representative Mike Janus said four separate times that BIA had no money and that BIA policy was to try to guide the Indian Country detention centers towards privatization companies like (Wackenhut {GEO now}, Cornell, CCA, etc.)
The BIA man from Washington is on loan from the Federal Bureau of Prisons after the Department of the Interior, Office of the Inspector General's devastating report Neither Safe Nor Secure was published showing BIA & Tribal detention problems and their huge legal liability.
LSA*OVI Senior Vice President J.D. Williams, a former Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a former Regional Vice President of GEO spoke positively about the Gadii'ahi Chapter selection of the OmniView™ incarceration design as a required specification for all future Gadii'ahi Chapter RFP solicitations and explained, in his opinion, based on 37 years of correctional experience, there simply is no other way, than with the OmniView™ design, to meet the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) number one purpose of zero-tolerance for prison rape.
LSA*OVI Navajo Owner/Architect Leon Shirley and Sonny Emerson LSA*OVI OmniView™ Inventor also attended the meeting.
The current Director of Navajo Nation Corrections (a former Navajo Social Services Director) — Dolores Greyeyes attended the meeting.
Also attending were current and former Navajo Nation Detention/Correction experts Barbara Crawford, Corrections Specialist with The Navajo Nation and Wilbe Antone, former Director of The Navajo Nation Department of Corrections and two former Navajo Nation Division Directors of Navajo Public Safety, Herb Clah, now Senior Program & Project Specialist for the Local Governance Support Center, Shiprock Agency and Dorothy Fulton, now a high placed BIA official from Phoenix, Arizona.
The Gadii’ahi Chapter hired Wilbe Antone (former Director of Navajo Corrections) at the meeting to advise them and to structure all future RFP activity.
By January 1, 2006 the Gadii’ahi Chapter is projected to earn certification (where it becomes like a county government).
On June 30, 2005 the day following the meeting day, Herb Clah and the Gadii’ahi Chapter Steering committee attended a tour of a small BIA facility nearby (the Director also attended the meeting) at a Ute Reservation, combination juvenile and adult jail and President Descheenie spent four hours with Sonny Emerson sharing the Gadii'ahi Chapter's economic development vision and showing him the 2,304 bed prison site.
Commission Finds That Prison Rapes Affect Families, Communities
From the Kansas City infoZine:
"Reggie B. Walton, the commission chairman and a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, said in an interview that the commission hopes to submit a report to President Bush and Congress after the completion of a study by the Justice Department near November 2006. In the meantime, the commission will hold additional hearings, gather more data and draft a report, Walton said."
OmniView™ In The News:
Meeting With Gadii'ahi Committee
June 7, 8 & 9 saw Leon Shirley LSA*OVI's Navajo Architect and eleven members of the Gadii'ahi Chapter of The Navajo Nation Detention Committee visit Midland for presentation, fact finding and information gathering on the Prison Rape Elimination Act and increasing Gadii'ahi Chapter Public Safety, Economic Development and Jobs.
For more information on the visit, please view the online video below, containing coverage by CBS7 and ABC2 television stations.
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TV News Coverage*1 (56K)
*1 Permission to use video granted by CBS7 and KMID ABC2 .
Gadii'ahi Chapter Pass Resolution
The Gadii'ahi Chapter have presented, discussed and approved a resolution requesting that the Navajo Nation Council, Economic Development and the Resource Committee Members approve Land Withdrawal for the development of an OmniView™ Incarceration Complex.
Gadii'ahi Resolution: (PDF) (JPG)
Gadii'ahi Website
First OmniView™ License Granted
The Chapter (similar to County political subdivision) of Gadii'ahi of the Navajo Nation, located about ten miles from Shiprock New Mexico, passed a resolution to utilize the first OmniView™ Incarceration Complex. This new complex will include a 68 bed jail, a revenue generating 256 bed leased juvenile inmate incarceration facility, a World Class Detention Officer Training Academy and a paid (free world wages) inmate vocational training skills, You Visited Me, Inc., not-for-profit Construction Trades, Education, Training, Employment & Experience Program complex.
More Information: Download PDF
OmniView™: PREA Incarceration Integrity
OmniView™ has created a graphic which demonstrates on a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 being the most desirable, the elements of incarceration integrity and how they are addressed by four variables for each of the four incarceration supervision design types.
For a comparison of PREA Incarceration Integrity Factors including: Safety from sexual assault, STD protection, Suicide prevention and Fire safety, please click on this demonstration graphic.
OmniView™: Economically Sound
OmniView™ has developed an economically sound, self-sufficient incarceration system that will create jobs and bolster the local economy for First Nation Tribes.
For more information, please read our report:
An Economic Development Innovation:
For The 562 First Nation Tribes (PDF)
Total Superveillance™
What is Total Superveillance™ and how does it compare to Intermittent Supervision?
For the answer, please read our latest report: Comparison Of Incarceration Supervision Types (PDF)
PREA & Intermittent Supervision
Does the implementation of the PREA Act spell the end of intermittent supervision?
That question was asked at the ACA NIC International Teleconference on January 10, 2005. Please take a moment to watch the following video which includes the answer given.
Suicide leads to lawsuit
From the Gallup, NM Independent:
"In the complaint, Barudin alleges that the United States knew of dangerous
conditions at the Pueblo of Zuni Detention Center, and "had reason to know of the Zuni Detention Center personnel's improper, negligent, and reckless operations ... as a direct result of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) investigation of the jail," yet failed to remedy the situation, bringing about Kallestewa's death."
Full Article (PDF)
Mr. J.D. Williams - OVI Partner
Mr. J.D. Williams, a former Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and OVI Partner has, on October 1, 2004 retired from the premiere private prison provider Wackenhut (now GEO) as their Director of Operations.
Mr. J.D. Williams' Resume ( PDF )
New DOI / BIA Report
A devastating report on Indian Country jails was just released - Link
ACA Comments
The OmniView™ design has been formally submitted to the American Correctional Association's Director of Standards and Accreditation Robert J. Verdeyen whose initial response was:
"Without a doubt, your concept is imaginative and innovative".
As architectural plans are completed they will be forwarded to and guided by Director Verdeyen for final analysis and confirmation of ACA Standards compliance.
Federal Funding
FY 2004 Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities Discretionary Grant Program
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Transparent Justice
A special report by Sonny Emerson, creator of the OmniView™ design ( PDF - 4.84MB - approx. 5 minutes or less on broadband)
Reward / Penalty - Performance Program
Find out the details on our Reward / Penalty - Performance Based - Fee For Incarceration Services!
Government Run - Reward / Penalty Recidivism
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Texas House of Representatives
We were recently invited to Austin, TX to testify before the Texas House of Representatives' Committee on Corrections regarding the innovative OmniView™ incarceration design.
On March 16, of 2004 an OmniView™ presentation was made to the Texas House of Representatives’, Committee on Correction’s, Subcommittee on Targeted Contracting.
At one hour and fifty three minutes of all the presentations and after the OmniView™ presentation — Committee Chairman Representative Ray Allen made the following statement:
“There is no doubt that this is some interesting innovation, the unfortunate part is that we have one-hundred and seven prisons that don’t have it in there.”
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Our presentation begins at 1:29:17
- 8/6/04 Letter From Tom Craddick - Speaker of the House
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- 11/19/03 Letter From Tom Craddick - Speaker of the House
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- Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate
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