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| Jail receives perfect rating by DOC |
| By argus-press.com |
| Published: 04/14/2011 |
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CORUNNA — It’s been a long time since it has had the honor, but the Shiawassee County Jail recently received a 100 percent compliance rating following an April 5 inspection of the jail’s safety, maintenance, structure, health policy and many other factors by the Michigan Department of Corrections. “We haven’t had that here in quite some time,” jail administrator Lt. Doug Powell said. “I don’t know if this agency has ever had it.” When accepting the job in 2001, Powell said there were a lot of areas in which the jail was out of compliance. The biggest part, he said, was the jail’s central control or “brain center.” “We had areas where prisoners were going where they weren’t supposed to be,” Powell said. But that is no longer the case. Through grants and the hard work of the jail staff, the facility now has new policies, new technology and a remodeled structure to provide for safer operation and a more secure jail, Powell said. The jail completely restructured its control center to secure it from inmates and other outsiders without permission to enter. Administrators went through thousands of files one by one to sort through those old enough to be destroyed, and eventually moved the rest to another secured facility. That allowed for a large nurse’s office and an inmate property room, Powell said. The jail added an entirely new, isolated intake room that allows for a more private setting in which to conduct more thorough medical screening. The Shiawassee County Jail also implemented a live scan fingerprinting system. The whole project cost $12,000 and was completely funded by grants and all the work was done by jail staff. “It was really neat,” Powell said of finally reaching 100 percent compliance. “It’s been an exhausting process to get it there. We never thought we would get it there.” He said even the state inspector said he was pleased to see the jail come so far and enjoyed watching it improve over the past decade. Shiawassee County Sheriff George Braidwood credited Powell and the jail staff for the hard work over the past 10 years to make the jail a safe and secure place for workers and inmates. Read More. |
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