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Sheriff raises alarm over jail generator failures; seeks consultant for medical contract review
Summary
LaSalle County sheriff reported two recent generator failures at the correctional facility and proposed hiring an external consultant to write and monitor the jail medical services RFP, citing rising medical costs and contract enforcement tools used by larger counties.
LaSalle County Sheriff reported a recurring problem with the correctional facility generator and proposed hiring an outside consultant to help rewrite and monitor the county’s jail medical services contract.
The sheriff told the Public Safety Committee that the facility’s generator failed a load test for the second time in about six weeks, causing an outage that left the jail without power — including toilets and sinks — for roughly 45 minutes to an hour. The sheriff said the jail’s standard practice during an outage is to lock down inmates in secure areas and that staff were able to implement that procedure, but the repeated failures remain a…
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