Annual Report, Year 2006 - Monroe County Sheriff's Office

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Annual Report - 2006
Operations Captain
Rick Remley
Transportation Director
Tony Campana
Administrative Captain
Penny Phelps
Programs Director
Keena Allen
programs just to mention a few. Studies have shown
programs such as these do reduce recidivism in jails and
prisons. We are committed to making a positive difference
in inmate lives and to return them to the community as
productive citizens.
The Corrections Bureau provides processing and detention
services for all law enforcement agencies in Monroe
County. In 2006, 9,229 arrestees were booked through the
three jail facilities. The average daily inmate population for
all three facilities was 647 and the average cost per day to
house an inmate was $65.54.
Processing an inmate involves Intake booking, Medical
Screening, Fingerprinting, Photographing and Classification
of the individual. Technology plays a key role
particularly through video-imaging photos and electronic
identification or inkless fingerprinting.
Our automated fingerprinting identification system was
upgraded this year and allows the Booking Officer to take
writer prints and palm prints. The system is much faster
and accurate. It offers real time positive identification on all
arrestees. It is not a free ride for the arrestees; all arrestees
are assessed an initial $10 booking fee. This year the fee
generated over $41,745.27 for the County’s General Fund.
Arrestees who can’t pay the $10 fee at the time of booking, will carry the outstanding debt until it is paid.
In a continued effort to save the taxpayers money, the Sheriff’s Office leases unused inmate beds to
Federal Agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Marshals and U.S. Border Patrol at a
cost of $82.00 per day per inmate. In 2006, inmate contract beds netted approximately $1,642.706. The money
received from these contracted beds goes into the Monroe County General Fund to off set operating the three
Detention Facilities.
Direct Supervision is a style of management used by our Corrections Deputies who work directly with inmates
in their living areas - units and dorms housing from 54 to 72 inmates. Each unit and dorm is supervised
by one Corrections Deputy.
The absence of barriers such as bars, steel doors and cat walks typically found in a traditional jail allows
our deputies to have more visibility of the inmates and better control of the areas in the jail including passage
ways and secure rooms. With the implementation of Direct Supervision, inmates activities and behavior are
under the direct control of our Corrections Deputies.
Transportation
Four thousand thirty four inmates were transported
to and from court in 2006 and 4,548 were
transported to and from the Marathon Jail and
Plantation Key Jail. Total movement of inmates
for the calendar year was 10,429.
Inmate Programs and Services
Daily needs of inmates are handled by the
inmates Programs and Services Division. Mail,
laundry, accounting, commissary, religious and
educational programs are among the program
services provided.
• Jail Drug Intervention Program:
In 2006 91 male inmates entered the
JIP program and only 5 returned to jail
in the same year. Twenty-eight female
inmates entered the JIP program only 2
returned to jail in 2006. Over 70% of the
Sheriff’s Office Corrections Division was re-accredited in
2006.
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