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Extracted from Consolidated Report
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Humboldt County Grand Jury
• 2012-2013
The Humboldt Tourism Business Improvement District
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Findings 7 findings
F1
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The Hoopa Sheriff’s Station is obsolete. Deputies often use the California Highway Patrol station in Willow Creek, which has better communications equipment.
F2
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The Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program farm is an exemplary program that provides much needed relief from overcrowding at the County Jail.
F3
Page 16
The Sheriff’s boat yard evidence facility has inadequate control and inventory issues. The evidence is not stored, tagged, or organized in a safe, controlled manner.
F4
Page 16
Some of the cameras in the women’s cellblocks of the County Jail are broken.
F5
Page 16
No full-time maintenance staff member is assigned to the County Jail, although there is enough ongoing maintenance work to warrant such an assignment.
F6
Page 16
The two conservation camps operated by the State in southern Humboldt have no medical facilities on site. Inmates who become severely ill or are injured are transported to the hospital in Garberville. Less seriously ill or injured inmates have their ailments diagnosed over the telephone by off-site health care workers. Inmates who require treatment that cannot be provided by onsite correctional officers are transported by prison bus to the state prison at Susanville, a journey of several hours. The buses do not run every day, so sick inmates may have to wait more than a day before being treated. There are no “sick bays” at the conservation camps where contagious inmates can be segregated from healthy inmates.
F7
Page 16
The inmate interviews conducted by the committee indicate that the Sheriff’s correctional facility provides satisfactory or better housing and services to inmates. The inmates indicated that outreach and educational programs are available, and that adequate medical care is available. Some inmates did express concerns that jail staff is not providing inmates with adequate information concerning “jail rules and regulations.”
Recommendations 7
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R1Page 16The County should continue its attempt to secure funding for construction of a more modern Sheriff’s station in the Hoopa or Willow Creek area. 11 2013-JAILS-01
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R2Page 17The Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program should be expanded to include more non- violent offenders and inmates as the prison realignment process continues.
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R3Page 17The Sheriff’s office should develop a safe, controlled, and organized method of storing evidence in its boat yard.
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R4Page 17The broken cameras in the women’s cellblocks of the County Jail should be repaired or replaced.
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R5Page 17A full-time maintenance worker should be assigned to the County Jail.
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R6Page 17The County has no jurisdiction over State-run correctional facilities, even those located within the County’s borders. The Board of Supervisors should ask our State representatives to investigate possible remedies for problems described in Finding 6.
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R7Page 17The Sheriff’s office should provide all inmates with written information about the County Jail’s rules and expectations when they enter the facility.