Detention division reports 57% occupancy, fingerprinting and new on-site programs

During the meeting Chad, presenting the detention-division quarterly report, said the jail's peak population for the period was about 265 inmates, with a rated bed capacity of 454—roughly a 57% occupancy rate. He said the division recorded 1,481 bookings and 1,384 releases in the quarter and reported two inmate-on-inmate assaults and three uses of chemical agent; there were two suicide attempts during the period.

Chad highlighted operational and medical details: 11 emergency hospital transports, 18 EMS transports, 14 non-emergent medical transports, 108 provider medical encounters inside the jail and 31 dental visits. He said the facility began using a new courthouse fingerprint machine on April 13 and recorded 716 fingerprint transactions between April 13 and June 30, an average of about 13 per day. Chad also said the Office of Criminal Justice Programming (OCJP) grant funded new office space inside the jail and two staff (from Franklin Recovery Center) to provide recovery programming for inmates.

"Our peak population was about 265 inmates," Chad told commissioners, and he described the fingerprint machine and the grant-funded recovery services as operational improvements. Commissioners asked a follow-up about courthouse proximity to the jail during later discussion.