BOSCOBEL, Wis. – An inmate at Wisconsin’s max-security prison says a state contractor has confiscated digital media devices wrongfully from inmates, including himself. Robert Wayne Huber Jr., 55, made the allegation in a class-action suit in federal court. Huber said that IC Solutions, a private prison contractor, took away tablets and digital media and required inmates to repurchase them. Huber claimed the action violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. A similar suit in Florida required the state to give millions of digital media credits to 11,000 prisoners to purchase content.
Prison purveyor. At issue are procedures of Texas-based IC Solutions. The company is the new state contractor to provide inmate access to digital music, books and movies.
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Boscobel profile
The $47.5 million 500-bed supermax prison Boscobel opened 1999. The one-level four-unit prison houses inmates in single isolated cells. The perimeter is surrounded by a lethal electrified fence. The prison is near Boscobel, population 3,200, upstream 30 miles from Prairie du Chien on the Wisconsin River.