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From: "Melissa Garff Ballard Info" <info@melissagarffballard.com>
To: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>
Sent: Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: 10-26-23 foloup Re: Study can boost UT inmate addiction-treatment pgms
You’re welcome.
I’m doing a lot in the corrections space. We’ll see if I can help facilitate this improvement, as it has been identified as a challenge for quite some time.
Rep Melissa Ballard
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On Oct 27, 2023, at 12:15 PM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:
October 27, 2023
Dear Utah State Representative Melissa Ballard,
Thank you for your very encouraging reply letter (below) to me. Your reply letter today is one of two total individualized reply letters I can recall that members of the Utah State Legislature have written and sent to me so far.
I am hopeful that a comprehensive new study on current addiction-treatment programs for Utah state-prison inmates can assist toward reducing criminal recidivism rates by convicted felons after they are released from a state prison in Utah.
Please do not hesitate to call me or write to me if you ever have any questions for me or seek any additional information from me.
Incidentally, the only other individualized reply letter to me that I can recall having received from a member of the Utah Legislature was from State Representative Angela Romero, and was sent to me in August of last year:
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From: "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>
To: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>
Cc: "Joel Briscoe" <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, "Nick Frederick" <nfrederick@le.utah.gov>
Sent: Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:33 AM
Subject: Safe Housing Conditions
Dear John McMillan,
Thank you for contacting me about safe housing. I support safe housing conditions for all Utahns and appreciate you raising this important issue.
While I do not know all of the circumstances of your living situation, I support your ability to have a safe place to live. I am including my colleague, Representative Joel Briscoe, on this email who will be the representative for your area once the new district lines go into effect this election. Further, Councilmember Ana Valdemoros represents your area on the Salt Lake City council and works with a constituent liaison who may be better able to help with any specific issues.
Thank you again for contacting me.
Sincerely,
Angela Romero
Representative, House District 26
Utah House of Representatives
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It is an honor for me to be living alone as a longtime celibate (ever since one total day in 1995), gainfully employed, permanently alcohol-free (ever since 1990), permanently marijuana-free (ever since 1984, and never previously addicted), lifelong-illicit-drug-free in regard to any and all illicit drugs other than marijuana, lifelong-tobacco-free, lifelong-nonvaping, facially cleanshaven single adult white non-Hispanic gentleman inside a bolt-locked and fully locked solo-occupancy unit of an 11-story HUD-subsidized senior citizens apartment complex and commercial property, Wasatch Manor in downtown Salt Lake City, that according to a friendly online statement at this complex's official website is "owned by Salt Lake Teachers, Granite Education, Davis Education and Salt Lake Administrators Association".
Thank you again, State Representative Ballard, for your very nice reply letter to me. I hope the next session of the Utah Legislature that convenes in January 2024 proves to be very successful for you.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, a permanent resident of Utah ever since January 1, 2023, after I relocated into this great state from Texas on December 31, 2021, and have remained in Salt Lake County, Utah, on a continuous basis ever since then.
My solo-occupancy studio rental-apartment-unit home address ever since June 1, 2022:
Wasatch Manor, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
My home phone: (801) 355-0850.
My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM, Melissa Garff Ballard Info
<info@melissagarffballard.com> wrote:
John,
Thank you for reaching out offering your expertise. This is definitely something on the radar in Utah. I consulting with applicable parties about a process.
Gratefully,
Rep Melissa Ballard
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On Oct 26, 2023, at 9:41 PM, John McMillan <mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:
October 26, 2023
Dear Utah State Representative Joel Briscoe and Utah State Senator Jen Plumb,
Thank you both for having politely accepted from me my October 23 e-mail letter (farther below) in which I recommended that the State of Utah pay a first-rate outside consultant to conduct a new statewide study that comprehensively evaluates the level of success of the current addiction-treatment programs being provided to state-prison inmates here in Utah.
Today I would like to pose some friendly follow-up public-policy questions to both of you state lawmakers who directly represent me in the Utah Legislature:
----Do you both believe that the addiction-treatment programs currently being provided to inmates in the state prisons of Utah should be expanded and strengthened?
----Do you both believe that expanding and strengthening the addiction-treatment programs for Utah state-prison inmates will help reduce the suicide rates and incidence of violence in state prisons of Utah?
----Do you both believe that expanded and improved addiction-treatment programs in Utah state prisons can help many of the inmates achieve earlier release from prison through improved civility by those inmates and more diligent compliance with the rules of their state prison?
----Do you both agree that recently-released state-prison inmates here in Utah who had successfully completed one or more addiction-treatment programs while in prison can get hired faster for a new job and are more likely to hold onto that new job?
----Do you both agree that improved addiction-treatment programs in Utah state prisons can help reduce the total number of parole-revocation hearings and the number of parole revocations that former inmates might be subjected to in our state?
----Do you both agree that improved addiction-treatment programs for state-prison inmates here in Utah can help reduce the short-term and long-term criminal recidivism rates by former state-prison inmates in our state?
State Representative Briscoe and State Senator Plumb, I hope that this two-part brainstorming letter from me will prove to be helpful to yourselves and your colleagues in the Utah Legislature, the Utah Department of Corrections, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Utah Department of Public Safety state agencies.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
former Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles state-agency full-time employee, former Texas Department of Criminal Justice state agency full-time employee, and former Texas DPS state agency full-time employee John Kevin McMillan.
My solo-occupancy rental-home address ever since June 1, 2022:
535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
I am the youngest grandson of Murray (UT) butcher shop owner and LDS member Parley McMillan of Murray and his devoted LDS member wife, Mrs. Alice Mae Pugh (maiden surname name) McMillan of Murray.
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:59 PM, John McMillan
<mcmillanj@att.net> wrote:
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.
My solo-occupancy fully bolt-locked and fully locked studio rental apartment unit address ever since June 1, 2022:
535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
My home phone: (801) 355-0850.
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