A new vision for the county jail matters
Some of the goals I want to achieve as your Sheriff are:
- Keep you safe by running a professional modern jail system
- Focus on reducing reoffending through rehabilitation
- Measure the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs
- Publicize the results
- Reform programs that do not work
- Expand programs that do work
- Boost the three pillars of prisoner reentry through post-release discharge planning on:
- Housing to reduce homelessness upon release
- Employment through education and skills training
- Health care including drug addiction treatment and mental health treatment
- Prioritize correctional officer advanced training in:
- working with mental illness
- de-escalation tactics
- implicit bias awareness
- duty to intervene
- Make our jail system a modern national model in evidence producing and transparent corrections