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Recommendations 6
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R1The Sheriff’s Office should implement its new prisoner classification system as soon as possible and continue to look for additional ways to reduce overcrowding.
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R2The Sheriff’s Office should aggressively pursue opening a second booking facility in the southern portion of the county, as well as additional methods of expediting the process for officers delivering arrestees to the jail.
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R3The Sheriff’s Office should continue to offer tours of the Main Jail to the public and consider extending the practice to its Rountree facilities in Watsonville.
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R4The Board of Supervisors should evaluate the compensation given to Sheriff’s Office corrections staff and the Health Services Agency’s Detention Medical Services staff to assure the parity of pay of those positions compared with similar jobs elsewhere. Jails Review - 5
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R5The Sheriff’s Office and Health Services Agency should expedite their review of the most effective and cost-efficient way to provide health services to the jails, including reviewing the possibility of contracting out some or all of the jails’ health care needs to a private company.
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R6The Sheriff’s Office should encourage Spanish language training for correctional officers. Main Jail Commendation Jail administrators and staff and Detention Medical Services staff should be commended for their professionalism.