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Benefits of city's jail outweigh costs
Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:15 PM PDT
Chief David Main, retired Captain Larry Manetti and everyone else who worked on the design of the new police facility realized including a jail would be costly and complicated. They also knew how valuable it would be to the community to have our own jail. In several valley cities where they do not have their own jail, people arrested for property crimes such as shoplifting, vandalism or grand theft are cited in the field and released. Those arrested for fighting, trespassing or other "persons" crimes may also be cited and released in the field.
If you are arrested in Lodi, you are transported to our city of Lodi jail and booked. Some spend a few hours in jail; others will spend one or more nights, depending on the day of the week they are arrested. Most everyone in the Lodi jail appears in front of a judge before they are either released or transported to the San Joaquin County Jail. Many people who have spent time in our jail comment that they don't want to return. The Lodi jail definitely serves as a deterrent to crime in our city.
Lodi P.D. has maintained the city jail since the department was formed in the early 1900s. Here are a few jail facts:
• There are 10 cells that can hold two prisoners each.
• Each cell has two beds, a toilet, a sink and a phone where the prisoner can call collect.
• There is one male sobering cell and one female sobering cell.
• We have two interviewing rooms where officers and/or detectives speak with prisoners privately.
• There is one day room for prisoners who are being held temporarily.
• The jail has two phone cells where arrestees can place phone calls to relatives, friends, bail bond companies, etc.
• There is one safety cell for prisoners who are violent.
• Two shower cells are located in the jail.
• There are no bars on the cells. Most modern facilities have cells with windows made out of safety glass.
• Windows in the jail can be fogged electronically for prisoner privacy or to keep them from making visual contact with jail personnel or other prisoners.
• Jailers have keys, but the doors are controlled electronically.
• The facility is inspected frequently by the State of California Board of Corrections.
• Jailers check the status of the prisoners every 30 minutes.
• Jailers and dispatchers monitor the jail via a system of cameras that show everything from the sally port (driveway where the officers enter the jail) to the outside of the cells to the visiting area.
• Prisoners are fed three times a day. The meals consist of different types of burritos, frozen dinners, orange juice, V-8 juice and wheat bread.
• There is no television, radio, books or any form of entertainment in the Lodi jail.
• It takes a jailer an average of 20 minutes to book one prisoner. Jailers must inventory and list all personal property, review the 33-question medical questionnaire, and digitally fingerprint and photograph each person being booked before moving them into a cell.
• 5, 164 people were booked into our jail in 2007. That's 430 arrestees per month.
Any comments, questions or advice for Behind the Badge can be e-mailed to jbiskup@pd.lodi.gov, or mailed to Jeanie Biskup, Lodi Police Department, 215 W. Elm Street, Lodi, CA 95240, phone (209)333-6864.
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Giovanina wrote on Jun 27, 2008 7:40 AM:
Plus it would be even cheaper to just give them baloney sandwichs, a carrot, and some good ole Lodi water. They don't need V-8 juice, thats expensive. "
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