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| Questionnaire helps decide where to put Yakima prisoners |
| By yakimaherald.com- Michelle Iracheta |
| Published: 11/21/2016 |
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At Yakima County jail, inmates placed into special housing — a term used by the jail in lieu of solitary confinement — must go through a screening process. The one-page Prebook/Intake Questionnaire, implemented less than two months ago, requires officers to ask arrested individuals whether they have medical problems, injuries, disabilities, surgeries or if they are thinking about harming themselves. Other questions include whether the person has ever been suicidal or has a mental illness. Officers “start asking preliminary questions before we even take them into custody into the facility,” said Lt. Jeremy Welch, Yakima County Department of Corrections spokesman. Read More. |
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