SPRINGFIELD, Sick. (WAND) — State representatives handed a invoice Thursday to verify folks within the Division of Corrections aren’t charged unreasonable charges for sending mail. The regulation additionally calls for extra transparency surrounding the IDOC mail scanning procedure.
Rep. Rita Mayfield (D-Waukegan) mentioned it is vital that households can keep hooked up with their family members, and the state will have to now not make that procedure tougher.
Her invoice may just make sure dedicated folks and their correspondents aren’t charged any price, surcharge, or value for mail or scanning products and services that exceed the usual postage price.
“Mainly, we are simply codifying into legislation the present observe of IDOC which is solely to fee the marketplace price of a stamp,” Mayfield mentioned. “So if a stamp is 25 cents at the out of doors, it is 25 cents at the inside of.”
Advocates mentioned the dep. could be banned from producing any earnings from verbal exchange between households and family members.
The regulation additionally calls for annual reporting at the charges folks pay for mail and the way the dep. spends the cash.
Area Invoice 4235 handed unanimously out of the Area and now strikes to the Senate for additional attention.
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