HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.08.05 - 13900MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 11 82234 August 5, 1982
BY: PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE - JAMES LANNI, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: Utilization of Cellspace in Basement Courthouse Detention Area During the
Hours of Midnight to 6:00 A.M. to House Oakland County Jail Inmates.
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, in March, 1978 the Oakland County Sheriff's Department, County
Executive and Board of Commissioners became parties to a class action lawsuit, filed in U.S.
District Court, Detroit, Michigan by inmates incarcerated or to be incarcerated in the
Oakland County jail, and alleging that overcrowded conditions
constitutional rights; and
WHEREAS, in February, 1982 all above parties to
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the lawsuit entered into a
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consent judgment with plaintiff's attorneys and the court to end the lawsuit without trial;
and
WHEREAS, the consent judgment mandates that by August 22, 1982 inmate
population in the Receiving area of the jail is to consist of not more than fifty one (51)
inmates during daytime hours and not mare than twenty (20) inmates sleeping during the
hours of midnight to 6:00 a.m.; and
WHEREAS, inmate population in the Receiving area of the jail has averaged
approximately forty (40) inmates daily during the first six (6) months of 1982; and
WHEREAS, secured cellspace exists in the basement Courthouse detention area
of the Courthouse building to house an additional eighteen (18) inmates over and above
current capacity in the Receiving area of the jail; and
WHEREAS, utilization of these cells would therefore increase Receiving
capacity to thirty eight (38) inmates during the hours of midnight to 6:00 am.; and
WHEREAS, utilization of this cellspace involves no additional capital costs, is
readily available for use and readily accessible to the main jail through a connecting tunnel
to the Courthouse building; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan Department of Corrections has inspected this area and
concurs with the County's proposal for utilization; and
WHEREAS, your Jail Study Subcommittee voted unanimously at their meeting of
Wednesday, July 21, 1982 to recommend to the Public Services Committee and the Board of
Commissioners that cellspace in the basement COrthouse detention area be utilized for
housing Receiving area inmates during the hours of Midnight to 6:00 a.M when the main jail
population exceeds twenty (20) inmates;
COMMITTEE VOTE: Motion carried unanimously with Jackson absent.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that three (3) secured cells in the
basement Courthouse detention area of the courthouse building be utilized for sleeping
purposes for not more than eighteen (18) inmates during the hours of midnight to 6:00 a.m.
on any given day when the Receiving area population of the jail exceeds 20 inmates, in order
that the County may comply with terms of the consent judgment regarding population
requirements by August 22, 1982; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that nail Study Subcommittee staff
recommendations regarding creation of a work post and staffing for this post be reviewed by
the Personnel Committee of the Board of Commissioners and examined in conjunction with
the Sheriff's Department, Civil Counsel and the County Executive.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Cornmittee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Moved by Lanni supported by Moffitt the resolution be adopted.
-Discussion followed.
AYES: Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Cagney, Calandro, DiGiovanni, Doyon,
Fortino, Gosling, Hobart, Kasper, Lanni, Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Olsen, Page,
Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Whitlock. (23)
NAYS.: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, 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 # 82234 adopted byjhe Oakland County Board of Commissionen3
at their meeting held on August 5, 1982
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof .
In Testimony Whereof, I haYe hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 5thday of 7—) August 19 82
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds