HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.11.03 - 13483Miscellaneous ',Resolution # 32350 November , 1982
By Public Services Committee - James E, Lanni, Chairperson
In re: Amendment/Update to Jail Study Subcommittee Work Plan to Further
Reduce Jail Overcrowding - Cellblocks and Receiving
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS on September 1st, 1982, the Jail Study Subcommittee adopted
a Work Flan to Further Reduce Jail overcrowding- Cellblecks and Receiving in
order to comply with jail population reductions mandated in the U,S,District Court
consent judgment governing the Oakland County jail; and
WHEREAS on September 9th, 1982, the Board of Commissioners adopted this
plan for submission to Judge Boyle in U,S.District Court during a show cause hearing
on September 10th, 1982, to document county efforts towards compliance with terms
of the consent judgment; and
WHEREAS since that time two of the recommendations have been revised
and updated by the Jail Study Subcommittee to more accurately reflect current
cooperating agency operations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Recommendation 1 listed under
Recommendations to Further Reduce Jail Overcrowding - Receiving be changed to
read: Where on arrest on a misdemeanor can be made, all police agencies shall
be encouraged to utilize appearance tickets, as provided under state law,
whenever appropriate; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED - that Recommendation 4 5 listed under
Recommendations to Further Reduce Jail Overcrowding - Cellblocks be changed
to read Sentencing dates for in-jail cases shall be prioritized such that sentencing
dotes in these cases will be set not later than two weeks from the date of disposition
in CTrcuit Court; Current Policy or Program be changed to read: Inmates now wait
an overate of four (4) weeks in the county jail during the time between disposition
and sentencing, an average of twenty (20) inmates per week or 28,800 Ian days
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Amendment/Update to Jail Study Subcommittee Work Plan to Page 2
Further Reduce Jail Overcrowding -Cellblocks and Receiving
per year; Reduction in Terms of Jail Days if Recommendation was Implemented/
Adhered To be changed to read: Should in-Sail cases be sentenced not later
than two (2) weeks from the date of disposition in Circuit Court, two (2)
weeks average waiting time would be saved per iail inmate awaiting sentencing.
A reduction in the number of iail days to 14,400 for this step of the process.
Savings 14,400 Sail days per year,
MR. CHAIRPERSON, on behalf of the Public Services Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
kth day of November 198 2
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Moved by Lanni supported by Jackson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Price, Whitlock, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, DiGiovanni, Doyon,
Geary, Gosling, Jackson, Kasper, Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Moore, Olsen, Page,
Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF M1CMIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D, Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a- seal,
do hereby certify that / have compared the annexed copy - of
Miscellaneous Resolution g 8235a adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on November 4, 13_82
with the original record thereof ne.../ remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the.-
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
LYNNA, ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of
this