To avoid the perception of prejudice in the future, play musical beds. Every one to seven days reshuffle the sleeping arrangements. (Not every day, not every seventh day, just let a random number generator pick the days of shuffling.)

Let another random number generator pick the cell and cot for each inmate. It might be a bit rough on newbies who had to bunk with repeat sexual offenders, but that’s the price of equality.

Alternatively, consider not putting everyone tightly together in an expensive single building. Picture ten by ten cottages housing just one inmate each every hundred feet or so inside a fenced area with cameras, microphones, forbidden perimeter and mock oranges between the fence and the cottages.

Assume 1600 cottages, 40 to a side, 4000 feet by 4000 feet, less than a section of land, assume 640 acres, $10,000 per acre, $6.4 million dollars plus building costs. Doable. Put it in Bluff Springs near the nuclear power plant.

Less crowding, less problemsl.

David for fewer inmates

I was suprised to find typos throughout the DOJ report. It almost seems like they “threw it together.”

With that said, another point to make is that in retrospect, Escambia County Jail is the most comfy jail I have ever walked in to. Inmates get junk food, free medical, TV, Clean bedsheets and clean jumpsuits weekly, art classes, bible study classes, GED classes, basketball, exercise for TWO hours a day, everyday, hot showers, hot coffee, nintendo wii, playing cards, checkers, couches, the list goes on all on your taxpayer dime. Jail has been so easy than it has ever been before and this report comes out?

Why is crime so high in Escambia County? Because the jail is soft as beans due to liability concerns. Don’t worry, you’ll commit any crime you want and receive the above noted entitlements.

I’m suprised they won’t be getting pizza parties and late movies nights on the weekends…. oh wait, THEY ALREADY DO.

WOMEN 5 FEET TALL GOING INTO MALE PODS ALONE, GETTING IN THE FACE OF 6 FOOT 200 POUND MAN, TELLING HIM HOW IT IS GOING TO BE.

HAVING TO PULL INMATES OUT OF PODS AFTER THEY HAVE SMEARED YOU KNOW WHAT ALL OVER WALLS, A VERY LOVELY SMELL.

DEALING WITH MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT BE THERE.

MONITORS WHO GET LOWER PAY, NO RAISES FOR YEARS, NO APPRECIATION BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OFFICERS, BUT DEAL WITH SAME PROBLEMS,LESS BENEFITS ETC.

ALL IN ALL A GREAT BUNCH OF HARD WORKING PEOPLE, WORKING WITH PEOPLE MOST FOLKS RUN FROM.

WE APPRECIATE OUR DEPUTIES ON THE STREET, BUT WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THESE PEOPLE AFTER THEY BRING THEM IN.

* Employees shouldn’t complain if they didn’t exercise their right to vote.
* Employees shouldn’t complain if they voted to accept the contract knowing it was a poor contract to accept.
* Employees shouldn’t complain if they didn’t attend any PBA meetings and offer their input as to what would be acceptable contract language.

Far too many employees chose to sit back and grumble about things, but far too many wont do anything to bring about changes. I agree the job can be very stressful on many days. There are a lot of shifts when the workload seems to go non-stop. But that is why they call it work.

@ Sick and tired ~~ the staffing issues didn’t happen overnight. Staffing problems began about 10 years ago under McNesby and Dennis Williams. The last 6 years has been the worst in attracting new hires. Why would anyone want to come to work at a place where their boss (the Sheriff) has openly stated they are uneducated and untrained any may have alleged the CO’s were murderers? Why would anyone want to work in the jail facility that is under a DOJ investigation? Why would anyone want to stay in the job where they haven’t received a pay raise in 7 years? Add to this mixture, the ever increasing violent tendency of todays youth that believe violence is an answer to all their problems.

I realize that many of our senior employees have chosen to remain in the job versus starting over in a new career. We all make choices. Each choice has consequences, both good and bad. Despite all the bad in our chosen line of work, I see time after time how many of our employees who have resigned or retired seem to have no problem returning to the cesspool once the new job didn’t work out or found they were too young to be live comfortably on the pittance of a retirement check they receive.

Of all the atrocities noted by the DOJ, nothing really alarms me. The lack of staffing contributes to the majority of problems. The increase in personnel will certainly solve security issues and leave issues. The one thing I found laughable was the DOJ complaints that black inmates are being discriminated against or that an all black pod was treated differently that a pod containing with equal or somewhat equal ratio of black and whites. These all balck pods were provided the same TV, coffee pot, visitation, commissary, medical, outside recreation, church activities, mailing privileges, kitchen meals, clothing, etc.
Now, to solve the all black pod problem, the jail has instituted a system of placing 5 to 7 white inmates in a pod of 17 to 19 black inmates and this is suppose to make everything safer for everyone? I don’t get it their logic.