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| Staffing level at jail raises concerns |
| By dailypress.net - Jason Raiche |
| Published: 12/16/2013 |
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Understaffing of corrections officers in the Delta County Jail was the main item of concern discussed Thursday morning during a special meeting of the Delta County Board of Commissioners. This spring, an inspector from the Michigan Department of Corrections toured the county jail facility, noting the existing staffing level in the jail of 13 full-time equivalents (FTEs) is not consistent with the intent of an administrative rule requirement set forth in the Michigan Department of Corrections Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups. Though not a law, the rule states the requirement of 20 FTEs to properly and safely staff the facility, according to Delta County Sheriff Gary Ballweg. The DOC has recommended creating two positions that would need to be staffed 24/7, or in one case, for 18 hours a day, seven days a week, he said. "In practice, what we have been doing in the past couple of years is filling additional positions in the jail on day shift, Monday through Friday, maybe for purposes of running inmates to court, being in court with inmates .... and, of course, running inmates to various medical appointments that they have to have outside the facility, running inmates back and forth to other county jails and state prisons and so forth," he said. "So we have been filling some of the recommended positions of this chart (provided by the DOC) by using part-timers and overtime during the last several years." Read More. |
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