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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Yolo County Grand Jury
• 2017-2018
Inmate Visitation Policy at the Yolo County Monroe Detention Center
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Findings 3 findings
F1
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The Monroe Detention Center permits visits with inmates by family members and friends, but its scheduling procedure is unduly inconvenient and discourages rather than encourages such visits.
F2
Page 16
The Monroe Detention Center would benefit from an online system that would allow visitors to make appointments more conveniently.
F3
Page 16
The Monroe Detention Center would further enable and encourage visits by investing in video-visiting technology that allows remote visits with inmates by family members and friends.
Recommendations 3
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R1Page 16The Yolo County Sheriff should direct the Monroe Detention Center to implement a revised, more convenient and more family-friendly schedule for making visiting appointments (to be implemented by Oct. 31, 2018).
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R2Page 16The Yolo County Board of Supervisors should allocate funding for implementation of an online system for making visiting appointments (to be implemented by Dec. 31, 2020 with evidence of planning by Oct. 31, 2018).
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R3Page 16The Yolo County Board of Supervisors should allocate funding for implementation of a video visiting system (to be implemented by Dec. 31, 2020, with evidence of planning by Oct. 31, 2018).