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Grievance seeks reduction of time spent inside the jail cells. Currently most inmates get 4 hours outside of the two-person cells. Here's why Monroe County inmates are spending up to 23 hours a ...
Monroe County Council members Kate Wiltz and Peter Iversen and Monroe County Commissioner Julie Thomas attempt to sort jail inmates during an exercise at a joint meeting on July 11, 2024.
Critics are blasting the Monroe County Commissioners for slow progress on constructing a new jail, which, the critics said, should have happened a long time ago.. Commissioners this week unveiled ...
In addition to checking each inmate's telephone and email lists, the advisor assigns each inmate a job, which is typically paid at well under 50¢. Typically there are more inmate workers than work to do, but policy is that every inmate in "population"—the main class of inmates, without special conditions—must have a job.
In a cooperative agreement between the Monroe County Correctional Center and the Monroe County Public Library, Jail Library Services have been offered since 1986. Each month, the Jail Library is visited by about 200 inmates and circulates over 1,000 books. Each inmate has access to library service about once every three weeks. [6]
The county previously estimated a 400-bed facility would cost around $75 million, Cockerill said. Last year the current jail had an average population of 160 inmates. The current jail's capacity ...
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the Monroe complex had eleven positive cases—five staff and six inmates in the same minimum security unit. [8] Over 100 prisoners at the complex rioted on April 8 in response to the outbreak, but were broken up by corrections officers using crowd control tactics and an evacuation of housing units.
Three other sites had been considered during recent closed-to-the-public meetings: 100 acres in the North Park industrial development along Ind. 46, the city's 20-acre Hopewell property at the ...