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CORRECTIONS (JAII,/WORK RELEASE"CENTER) <br />A. FINDINGS <br />1. As was the case in the mid-1980s, the ~farion County Correctional facility is <br />once again operating at such a high capacity as to seriously limit the ability of the criminal <br />justice system to arrest, book, prosecute and incarcerate persons, either on a pre-trial or <br />sentenced basis. <br />2. The Marion County jail has a current ~ capacity of 343 beds, and a <br />bud etg ed capacity of 320 beds. The work center has a bed and bud.~eted capacity of 78 beds. <br />The only way that the county is currently able to function with its limited corrections bed <br />space is by imposing severe artificial limits on its boo~ng and sentencin activities. <br />3. A recent study completed by Daniel C. Smith and Associates indicates that, <br />without takin~ into account any increased demands on local facilities which may be the result <br />of changing state rules, the jail capacity will need to be increased by as much as 100 <br />additional beds and the work center will need to be increased to 98 beds by 1997. This <br />study further indicates that by 2003, the jail ~vill need to add a further 150 beds and the work <br />center will need another 24 beds; and that by 2015 we will need between 538 and 729 beds <br />in the jail, depending on the policies adopted bv the ~farion County Courts citv coun , and <br />state police a~encies, district attorney and corrections officials concernin~ the anest, <br />prosecution and detention of criminal offenders. <br />4. The corrections department also needs space to house its administrative staff, <br />field services personnel, and state release officers. It appears that these space needs can <br />best be accommodated in the proposed tri-agency facility, and this report so recommends. <br />B. RECOMME~(DATIONS <br />1. Planning should begin immediately for the e}cpansion of the jail and its bed <br />PAGE 16 <br />ksj/cd/Facilities.Int 03/18/95 <br />