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CORRECTIONS (JAIL/WORK RELEASE CENTER) <br />A. FINDINGS <br />1. As was the case in the mid-1980s, the Marion County Correctional facility is once <br />again operating at such a high capacity as to seriously limit the ability of the criminal justice <br />system to arrest, book, prosecute and incarcerate persons, on either a pre-trial or sentenced basis. <br />2. The Marion County jail has a current bed capacity of 343 beds, and a budgeted <br />capacity of 320 beds. The work center has a bed and budgeted capacity of 78 beds. The only way <br />that the county is currently able to function with its limited corrections bed space is by imposing <br />severe artificial limits on its booking and sentencing activities. <br />3. A recent study completed by Daniel C. Smith and Associates indicates that, without <br />taking into account any increased demands on local facilities which may be the result of changing <br />state rules, the jail capacity will need to be increased by as much as 100 additional beds and the <br />work center will need to be increased to 98 beds by 1997. This study further indicates that by <br />2003, the jail will need to add a further 150 beds and the work center will need another 24 beds; <br />and that by 2015 we will need between 538 and 729 beds in the jail, depending on the policies <br />adopted by the Marion County Courts, city, county and state police agencies, district attorney and <br />corrections officials concerning the arrest, prosecution and detention of criminal offenders. <br />4. The corrections department also needs space to house its administrative staff, field <br />services personnel, and state release officers. It appears that these space needs can best be <br />accommodated in the proposed tri-agency facility, and this report so recommends. <br />B. RECOMMENDATIONS <br />1. Planning should begin immediately for the expansion of the jail and its bed <br />capacity. <br />PAGE 17 <br />ksj/cd/Facilities.int 04/07/95 <br />