My Letter Today to Utah State Legislature Criminal Justice committee members

 I am very pleased to have written and sent this tentative recommendation tonight to Utah State Legislators:

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: "Joel Briscoe" <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, "Jplumb" <jplumb@le.utah.gov>, "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, "Mark A. Strong" <mstrong@le.utah.gov>, "Attorney General of Utah" <uag@utah.gov>, "Utah Department of Corrections 2022" <kefelsted@utah.gov>, "corrections@utah.gov" <corrections@utah.gov>, "Univ of Utah Criminology Dir. Heather Melton" <heather.melton@soc.utah.edu>, "Crimevictims GV" <crimevictims@utah.gov>, "ryanwilcox@le.utah.gov" <ryanwilcox@le.utah.gov>, "mgwynn@le.utah.gov" <mgwynn@le.utah.gov>, "mballard@le.utah.gov" <mballard@le.utah.gov>, "jburton@le.utah.gov" <jburton@le.utah.gov>, "khall@le.utah.gov" <khall@le.utah.gov>, "shayes@le.utah.gov" <shayes@le.utah.gov>, "shollins@le.utah.gov" <shollins@le.utah.gov>, "tlee@le.utah.gov" <tlee@le.utah.gov>, "karilisonbee@le.utah.gov" <karilisonbee@le.utah.gov>, "vpeterson@le.utah.gov" <vpeterson@le.utah.gov>, "mikeschultz@le.utah.gov" <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>, "ltruchard@utah.gov" <ltruchard@utah.gov>, "Keith Grover" <keithgrover@le.utah.gov>, "kcullimore@le.utah.gov" <kcullimore@le.utah.gov>, "dipson@le.utah.gov" <dipson@le.utah.gov>, "kriebe@le.utah.gov" <kriebe@le.utah.gov>, "dthatcher@le.utah.gov" <dthatcher@le.utah.gov>, "aloubet@le.utah.gov" <aloubet@le.utah.gov>, "mmacpherson@le.utah.gov" <mmacpherson@le.utah.gov>, "cmusselman@le.utah.gov" <cmusselman@le.utah.gov>, "sflanigan@le.utah.gov" <sflanigan@le.utah.gov>, "Mayor Wilson" <mayor@slco.org>, "Office of Gov. Spencer Cox" <govcomm@utah.gov>, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021" <beckiepage@utah.gov>, "Utah Peace Officers Association 2022" <homeupoa@gmail.com>, "Utah Apartment Association 2022" <info@uaahq.org>, "communications@utahbar.org" <communications@utahbar.org>, "jfeinauer@le.utah.gov" <jfeinauer@le.utah.gov>, "astoddard@le.utah.gov" <astoddard@le.utah.gov>, "swhyte@le.utah.gov" <swhyte@le.utah.gov>, "chad.atkinson" <chad.atkinson@slcgov.com>, "leo.abila" <leo.abila@slcgov.com>, "todd.mitchell" <todd.mitchell@slcgov.com>, "mike.brown" <mike.brown@slcgov.com>, "Mike Weichers" <mweichers@ch.utah.gov>, "Utah Press Assn Director Brian Allfrey 2022" <ballfrey@utahpress.com>, "Utah Chiefs of Police Assn 2021" <vshupe@utahchiefs.org>, "Utah League of Cities and Towns 2022" <swood@ulct.org>, "Utah Restaurant Association 2022" <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, "newsmedia@ldschurch.org" <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, "Deseret News 2022" <dnweb@deseretnews.com>, "Utah Republican Party" <info@utgop.org>, "UT_Webmanager" <ut_webmanager@hud.gov>, "Internships" <internships@romney.senate.gov>, "Joel_wellum" <joel_wellum@lee.senate.gov>, "Joe Dougherty (DHHS)" <joedougherty@utah.gov>, "Cameron Roden" <croden@utah.gov>, "dps-victimservices@utah.gov" <dps-victimservices@utah.gov>, "SLCPD Outreach" <slcpdoutreach@slcgov.com>, "slcpdpr@slcgov.com" <slcpdpr@slcgov.com>, "Fox News SLC 2022" <news@fox13now.com>, "CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters" <60m@cbsnews.com>, "Him-roi" <him-roi@umail.utah.edu>, "Patient Feedback" <patientfeedback@imail.org>, "slsheriffpio@slco.org" <slsheriffpio@slco.org>, "Salt Lake County (UT) District Attorney 2022" <districtattorney@slco.org>, "sfarver@weber.edu" <sfarver@weber.edu>, "heeuklee@weber.edu" <heeuklee@weber.edu>, "Utah State University Provost 2022" <provost@usu.edu>, "Utah State Univ Communications 2022" <ucom@usu.edu>, "Westminster College Legal-Risk Mgment-Safety2022" <bbuckley@westminstercollege.edu>, "marie.stewart" <marie.stewart@slcgov.com>, "Drew Hadley" <drew.hadley@slcgov.com>, "constituentservices@utah.gov" <constituentservices@utah.gov>, "County Council Member Bradshaw" <arbradshaw@slco.org>, "Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021" <mayor@slcgov.com>, "Salt Lake City (UT) City Council" <council.comments@slcgov.com>, "Utah Republican Party" <info@utgop.org>, "Utah Democrats" <mail@utdem.org>, "nytnews@nytimes.com" <nytnews@nytimes.com>, "DenverPostEditors" <newsroom@denverpost.com>, "Cyprus Credit Union" <shauna.denos@cypruscu.com>, "membership@utahretail.com" <membership@utahretail.com>, "sociology@byu.edu" <sociology@byu.edu>, "byu-info@byu.edu" <byu-info@byu.edu>, "mayor@murray.utah.gov" <mayor@murray.utah.gov>

Sent: Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:59 PM

Subject: Study can boost  UT inmate addiction treatment pgms

Monday, October 23, 2023

Dear Highly Esteemed State Representative Joel Briscoe and State Senator Dr. Jen Plumb and each of the Very Honorable  members of the respective Utah State  House of Representatives and Utah State Senate Criminal Justice legislative committees,

I hope the State Government of Utah can invite a first-rate  outside consultant to evaluate any and all of  the current  illicit-drug addiction treatment programs,  alcohol-addiction treatment programs, and any and all other addiction treatment programs currently being provided to state-prison inmates in our state.

This is a very important issue for Utah. Ours is an enlightened U.S. state with a strong Mormon or LDS tradition of abundant  optimism about the ability of each American citizen Utahn  to diligently strive for self-improvement and achieve a clean-talking and non-profane, benevolent, conscientous, industrious, privacy-respectful and non-stalking, honest  and law-abiding lifestyle.

Well-funded and successful bilingual treatment programs for state-prison inmates addicted to tobacco, vaping, gambling, tattoos, prevarication or telling lies, stalking other Utahns,  invading the respective locked  homes or locked apartment units of other Utahns, sexually assaulting other Utahns, sexually assaulting other Utahns who are of a different racial group than their own racial group, committing the unconscionable somnophilia crime of having sexual contact or penetrational sex  with other Utahns who are asleep or being held unconscious against their own  will, physically assaulting other Utahns, kidnapping other Utahns, holding other Utahns hostage, robbing businesses, or vandalizing and destroying public property,

 could also help to reduce  overall crime rates throughout our great  state.

 

Among the dozens of  possible questions that the proposed outside-consultant statewide study for Utah  could address for officials of the Utah Department of Corrections might be:

---What are the short-term and long-term addiction treatment success rates, by gender,  of each of the addiction treatment programs currently being  provided to inmates of state prisons in Utah?

--Is there any evidence that the current addiction treatment programs being provided to state-prison inmates in Utah are more successful with  female inmates than with male inmates, and if so, what might account for any such gender-related disparity?

--Is there any evidence that the current addiction treatment programs in state prisons of Utah are more effective and fully successful  on a per-capita basis for inmates ages 21 or younger, inmates ages 22 to 30, inmates ages 31 to 40, inmates ages 41 to 50, age 51 to 60, ages 61 to 70, ages 71 to 80,  ages 81 to 90, or ages 91 or older?

---Is there any evidence that successful completion of an addiction treatment program occurs at  lower rates among  Utah state prison inmates who are African American or American Indian ("Native American") or white Hispanic  than among other racially defined categories of state prison inmates?

--Is there any evidence that Utah state prison inmates who were born in Utah are more likely to succeed in their addiction treatment program than Utah state prison inmates who were born in another state or a

foreign country?

---Is there any evidence that Utah state prison inmates who identify themselves as 'Devil Worshippers' or 'Satanists' are less likely than other inmates to be successful graduates of an addiction treatment program provided to them by a state prison in our state?

---Are there any types of addictions in persons convicted of a felony crime in Utah for which no current treatment program is provided by the state prison system of Utah?

---Do any other U.S. states currently provide treatment programs for addictions of their state-prison inmates for which no comparable addiction treatment program is provided here in Utah to state-prison inmates in the Beehive State?

----Are the addiction treatment specialists employed in state prisons of Utah paid at comparable, lower,  or higher salary levels than addiction treatment specialists in other states of this western region of the USA and the nationwide average salary levels for addiction treatment specialists employed by state prisons of the USA?

I hope that this very tentative brainstorming letter is helpful toward strengthening the addiction-treatment programs being provided to state prison inmates here in Utah.

I welcome any reply letter from any of you very influential State of Utah Legislators who believe our state could benefit from a generously funded outside consultant review of any and all of the addiction treatment programs currently being provided to state prison inmates here in Utah.

I am  the youngest son of a public-safety-minded and Mormon Church-trained white British-American native of Murray, Utah, Dr. Calvin McMillan, who was a very distinguished alumnus of Murray High School and the University of Utah.  I feel  sure that Father would have been  very pleased by State of Utah approval for a new study aimed at recommending improvements to, and expansion of the scope of, addiction-treatment programs provided by state prisons here in Utah.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder of the strictly-one-member (myself) and non-proseltyzing, anti-alcohol, anti-tobacco, anti-tattoos, anti-facial hair,  non-stalking,  crime-deterrence-minded, factual-evidence-focused  "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" that does not agree to a second member at any time in the foreseeable future.

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