IDOC'S NEW SATELLITE TV CONTRACT IS A BUST - QUALITY OF SIGNAL ISSUES: Part 3 of 3
What good is it to have 75 television channels when none of them are of a quality that allows you to watch a program? That's the issue at the ISCC since the installation of the of the new satellite television system by A+ Satellite per contract between the Meridian, Idaho company and the Idaho Department of Correction. Idaho prisoners housed in Arizona, and in facilities in the north of Idaho who are not contracted with A+ Satellite have quality signal and content, while the prisoners housed in the South Boise Complex (SBC) can barely watch a third of program or movie in its entirety due to the lack of a continuous and consistent television signal. To be fair, the closed circuit television (CCTV) system in the SBC and ISCC which consists of internal TV channels (DVD players and graphics generators), Over-The-Air (OTA) channels and channels sourced from satellite receivers has been screwed up for many years, and the contract between the Idaho Department of Correction