NCJ Number
85164
Date Published
1980
Length
46 pages
Annotation
These guidelines present and explain the standards of the California Board of Corrections for operating short-term and temporary detention facilities such as police and sheriff's station jails, court holding areas, and other facilities holding people for less than 24 hours.
Abstract
The guidelines are intended to serve as a resource for administrators and staff who are faced with running a detention facility for the first time or who are complying with standards for the first time. The standards and guidelines emphasize flexibility and are designed to permit local jurisidictions and administrators to use a maximum of discretion. The standards and guidelines cover inspections; emergency suspension of standards or requirements; personnel numbers, training, and management; records and public information; the classification and segregation of inmates; and inmate programs and activities. Other standards and guidelines cover discipline, the initial planning of local detention facilities, design and equipment for a local detention facility, medical services, food, bedding and linen, sanitation, and safety. For each area covered by a regulation, the guidelines seek to explain, amplify, and/or clarify the regulations.