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Warden outlines Franklin County Jail operations, treatment programs and reentry work
Summary
Warden Heather Franzoni gave commissioners a detailed briefing on the county jail’s capacity, housing model, inmate demographics, treatment programs (including MAT), reentry coordination and contracted vendors.
Warden Heather Franzoni presented an overview of operations, treatment services and reentry efforts at the Franklin County Jail during the board meeting, describing the jail’s structure, inmate demographics and several treatment and reentry initiatives.
“We have a full capacity of 500 beds. We have 8 housing units, a central booking center, and we house both men and women,” Franzoni told the Board of Commissioners, summarizing the facility’s layout and its operational principles of “care, custody and control.” She said the jail uses a direct-supervision housing model to help staff notice behavioral changes and intervene, citing an example in which an officer’s observations led to a mental-health intervention for an individual with active suicidal thoughts.
Franzoni provided a snapshot of a recent day’s bookings and case grades:…
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