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Miscellaneous Resolution No 82.265 . September 9, 1982
BY: JAMES EDWARD LANNI, COUNTY COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT #11
RE: ADOPTION OF JAIL STUDY SUB-COMMITTEE PROGRAM OF
IMPLEMENTATION TO REDUCE JAIL OVERCROWDING AND REQUEST
FOR A SIX MONTH EXTENSION FROM FEDERAL COURT
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland is under Court Order to reduce
the Jail inmate population; and
WHEREAS, the Jail Study Sub-committee has established a Program
of Implementation to Reduce the Jail Overcrowding so as to be in
compliance with the inmate population aS established in the Federal
Court Order; and
WHEREAS, it is apparent from the Report of the Jail Study Sub-
committee that additional time will be necessary in order to im-
plement reduction of the inmate population at the Jail; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Beard of Commissioners
adopt the Jail Study Sub-committee's Program of Implementation to
Reduce Jail Overcrowding; and
- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners request from the Federal District Judge an additional
six months in which to reduce inmate population at the Oakland County
Jail so as to comply with the Federal Court Order.
Mr. Chairperson, 1 move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PUBLIC SERVICES CC? ITTEE
AGENCIES
District Court
Circuit Court
Prosecutor's Office
Sheriff's Department
District Court
Circuit Court
Reduce the length .of waiting time for Forensic Current average waiting time is 41.45
Center exams to no more than 30 days from the days; approximately 15 inmates per
date of order. month or 7,452 jail days per year.
(4) Transport state sentenced inmates upon
sentencing to Jackson and related
facilities within two (2) days, as required
by MCL 800.48.
Current average waiting time between
sentencing and transport to Jackson
is seven (7) days; approximately
ten (10) inmates per week or 3,640
jail days per year.
Return state sentenced writ inmates to .
Jackson during the lour (4) week waiting
period between end of trial and sentencing.
(Following interview by probation officer
in the County jail.)
Writ inmates now wait an average of
four (4) weeks in the County jail
for sentencing before being returned
to state facilities; an average of
six (6) inmates per week or 9,360
jail days per year.
waLOMMENDATIONS TO REDUCE JAIL OVERCROWDING - CELLBLOCKS
JAIL STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATION
CURRENT POLICY
OR PROGRAM
REDUCTION IN TERMS OF JAIL
DAYS IF RECOMMENDATION WAS
IMPLEMENTED/ADHERED TO
(I) Reduce the length of time waiting time
between bindover from District Court to
Circuit Court, from an average of 14 days
to within 2 to 8 days.
(2) Identity and target low bond amount
(under $500.00) inmates who have not
met bond for bond review and/or to
determine an acceptable payment
alternative.
Process now takes 14 days on average;
approximately 30 jail inmates per
week or 21,840 jail days per year.
This program was begun in the
Sheriff's Department in December,
1981 on a pilot basis but
discontinued in March, 1982 when
the student intern assigned to the
project left; concerns approximately
10 inmates per week whose average
stay is 13.5 days, or 7,020 jail days
per year.
Should an eight (8) clay average be attained
the number of jail days would be reduced
to 12,480 for this step of the process.
Savings: 9,360 jail days per year.
Should five (5) low bond amount inmates
be identified per week and bonded out
within an average of five (5) days
the number of jail days would be reduced
to 4,810.
Savings: 2,210 jail days per year
Should waiting -time be- reduced- to 30 days Forensic Center (State-
the number of jail days would be reduced Department of Mental Health)
to 5,400 for this step of the process. Sheriff's Department
Savings: 2,052 jail days per year
Should waiting time be reduced to two (2) Circuit Court
clays the number of jail days would be Sheriff's Department
reduced to 1,040 for this step of the
process.
Savings: 2,600 jail days per year
Should writ inmates be interviewed by
Probation and then moved back to Jackson Sheriff's Department
or related facility within one (1) week,
three (3) weeks waiting time in the
County jail per writ inmate would be saved.
A reduction in the number of jail days to
2,184 for this step of the process.
:Savings: 7,176 jail days per year
Probation Department
JAIL STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATION AGENCIES
Office of Substance Abuse
Sheriff's Department
RECOMMENDATIONS TO REDUCE JAIL OVERCROWDING - CELLBLOCKS
CURRENT POLICY
OR PROGRAM
REDUCTION IN TERMS OF JAIL
DAYS IF RECOMMENDATION WAS
IMPLEMENTED/ADHERED TO
,.6) County participation in the Treatment
Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC)
grant - al ternative treatment placement
for inmates with alcohol and related
substance abuse offenses.
Offenders with underlying
alcohol and substance abuse
problems for the most part are
now sentenced to and treated in the
jail; conservatively there are
five (5) inmates per month who
would be eligible for alternative
treatment placement, or 5,100 jail
days per year
Should five (5) inmates per month
be identified and placed in the
TASC program within five (5) days
of booking into the jail, the
number of jail days would be reduced
to 300 jail days per year for this group
' of inmates.
Savings: 4,800 jail days per year
TOTAL SAVINGS IN JAIL DAYS PER YEAR - 28,198 OR 20% REDUCTION
eptember 9, 1982 #82265
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County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Moved by Lanni supported by Whitlock the resolution be adapted.
AYES: Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Whitlock, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell,
Cagney, Calandra, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Geary, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, Kasper,
Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Olsen. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seai,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #82265 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on September 9, 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 have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 9th day of iF."--) September 19 82 this