Genesee County Correctional Facilities

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Genesee County Correctional Facilities

The League supports:

• Housing inmates in a facility that meets state code, and which are well maintained.
• Daily monitoring of jail population to comply with facility's capacity and state standards.
• Sufficient numbers of corrections officers to comply with state code; training in human relations, first aid/CPR, corrections law, reporting.
• Adequate provisions for visitation; providing least costly phone service to recipients of inmate's collect calls.
• Full-time Social Worker on staff; provisions for substance abuse counseling, job training, anger management, parenting education, enrichment programs.
• Michigan Department of Corrections standards for sanitation of living quarters, clothing, bedding, pest control.
• Compliance with Michigan Department of Corrections nutrition program.
• Professional nursing care 24/7; maintenance of emergency first aid equipment; more exercise opportunities.

(Updated 2004)

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