When I say better late than never, I don't mean that in a facetious way. Or maybe they just lost the bleach that's supposed to go in the closets. Just like it sounds like-woops!-not only important video and metadata records have been lost, but they can't find their way to the bleach closet with a map, either. Not to mention that the corrections departments have never been properly and completely integrated into the County's IT system, which was, at least it was a couple of years ago, providing an excuse to run things on paper that then gets conveniently lost. But you can bet some day the County is going to have a real hornet's nest to deal with in its overall IT picture what whatever has been implemented off some of those ridiculous shell company buys. Recently, it's not clear how the disaster with the software and the illegal, unconstitutional handling of prisoner visits from their attorneys went so quiet. Many times it has been reiterated that raw sewage flows over cell floors, that prisoners do not have soup or toilet paper, that they are getting moldy food, that they are not receiving proper medical care, and that they were refused proper covid measures including even being tested for it. Over the last three years, I have pled with the commission publicly on numerous occasions toįIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THAT JAIL. God knows where they stashed those prisoners to present you the safer version of hell on earth. Oh, I'm sure those worst areas were not occupied while you were there Jeff. I'm meeting with staff tomorrow and this topic will be an intense area of my focus going forward. And so that areas that are currently occupied but are in a deplorable state of repair can be, at a minimum, remediated to a point where occupation of such spaces isn't akin to a punishment of our staff. Someone will have to provide me an explanation about this maintenance ticket churning.Īnd then it is going to require an action plan to fix these issues immediately and appropriately so that the usable portions of our large and aging facilities can be occupied once again. Why have tickets been allowed to be closed when the problems at issue are not solved? Who allowed this? We can spend a fortune in taxpayer money on building something nice-but if it is not maintained properly it will not last and will end up costing more in the long run. That is going to start with some frank, behind the scenes conversations with staff about our maintenance program at thisįacility over the last 20 years. This cannot be the course we take, lest we have what we now see with our last facility. In our brand new, $142 Million Dollar jail-one of the three elevators is already inoperable, the pipes are leaking like a sieve, and we have significant issues already brewing that are apparently not being fixed. But there are areas occupied that are substandard, borderline unacceptable. The only good news is that the worst areas that I saw, with the worst of the worst conditions, are not currently occupied by staff or prisoners. "Tickets are put in to maintenance, then they are closed and come back as 'having been repaired' -yet the problems are not fixed" stated one of the escorts when I asked why these issues had not been addressed by maintenance crews. Because what I saw was and is, in a word, unacceptable.įrom mold growing on walls in multiple rooms, to cracked floors leaking and fixtures coming out of the walls, to cracked windows that have gone unreplaced, to a rustic and odd "McGuyver" roof leak system that is failing in multiple rooms, to a sink that has had the hot water running, I am told, nonstop for a year that goes unrepaired. While we have concentrated on and continue to work on the personnel side of the jail woes issue-it is past time for us to focus on the maintenance and facilities side of the problem.
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