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Show 'i iHiifiT &tt umi (Con't.) Problems Identified by Model Cities Crime & Delinquency Task Force 1 f IMRl1! JS, 6. Expunging of records. 17. Need for Imquist andor Expungement of records can be interpreters for the criminal justice accomplished if one knows the system, including mutes, etc., with proper method to have it done. This such a person to be attached to the relates to the need for legal counsel court system. within the Juvenile Court System. Members of the Crime and use from 6:00 a. m. to 9:00 p.m. for 18. Need for review of the bail 7. Family relations class needed bond system. Delinquency Task Force with their T. V. viewing and conversation, within community schools and Bail bond system discriminates Chairman, Dean King, met at the There are two "light wells" for Jail on January 1 1 sunning and recreation, but these family counseling. against the poor. People with money City and County This need was expressed can afford to bail out of jail when for a tour of the facility, can only be used in good weather. particularly in regard to family those who have no money must Approximately 45 adults and Jones advised that funds had been counseling where familial relations remain in jail until their court teenagers from the Model received to expand their recreational have become problematic. Neighborhood witnessed the program and a recreational therapist appearance. 8. Children going to school The Task Force reviewed these procedure of booking an offender will be hired in the near future. hungry leads to other problems. This problem expresses the need problems and set the following as priorities for funding: First Priority for more extensive breakfast Community Relations - Police programs within the schools for in the Schools poverty youth. 1. Development of Tactical 9. Need for community relations unit of the police force, Squads a. Officers in Junior and Senior with emphasis toward the schools. At one time during 1967-6High Schools b. Relate to interested groups there was a Community Relations Division with the Police and civic organizations 2. Development of Post Department. Perhaps this could be reviewed. Also, there was an Curriculum 3. Curriculum within the "Officer Friendly" program where officers went to the schools. This schools 4. Development of curriculum worked rather well. 10. Need for drug and alcoholic for minorities 8 center for treatment and coordination of efforts. There are four Alcoholism Treatment Centers and two Drug Treatment Centers within the area, but they don't adequately cover the problem and they need to be example shouldn't be punished as someone who has been arrested for auto theft. 12. Lack of manpower - police, legal services office, legal defenders, courts and corrections. This refers to a lack of sufficient manpower to accomplish a good job in all of these areas. reporting crimes. This refers to such things as 1 3. Lack of hesitancy to report criminal activity because of threat to personal safety, peer group pressure or lack of desire to become involved. 1 4. Physical facilities for courts, police, corrections. At the present time physical facilities are becoming inadequate for some agencies within the criminal justice to function Fifth Priority Representation 1 . in Juvenile Court Proposal already written Sixth Priority Unwed mothers 1 . Childrens Services Society Seventh Priority Hungry children 1. Title I School Funds Eighth Priority Adult Misdemeanors 1. Halfway House 2. Defender Ninth Priority Family Relations Class 1. Community Schools Evening classes efficiently. These agencies include the Salt Lake City Police Department, Salt Lake City Municipal Courts, Salt Lake County Probation Department, etc. 15. Drug laws. It was felt that drug laws are not consistent and properly enforce. 16. Need for are difficult to training for people in police and correction work. For information on Crime and Delinquency Task The bail bondsmen situation was explained to the residents and the difference between the public defender's office and services such as Legal Aid were discussed. Residents saw the "drunk tank", the juvenile and women's sections and cells for prisoners who present a threat to themsevles or to the facility. The only area not visited was the maximum security section. Some of the reactions and comments of the residents follow: "WH, they only showed us what they wanted us to see." "Obviously, they did a lot of before our cleaning and visit." "I had a sick feeling, walking through and seeing human beings in cages. It was like going to the zoo. I didn't like it." Beth James, a resident of the People's Freeway area, asked Jones why there is such a delay in releasing prisoners and why no mattresses are furnished. He explained that procedures sometimes take longer than anticipated and a lack of manpower can present problems. Bedding is furnished, he said, but clean mattresses are not always available when a prisoner is admitted. The Salt Lake City and County Jail was constructed in 1966 under Force, call Martha U. S. Bureau of Prisons specifications. The facility ucos dormitory type cells as well as Turpin at regular cell blocks. Each section has a day room which the prisoners can 467-941- 6 Juvenile Detention Center, the State Industrial School and other city and county jails. The multi-millio- S. L. jail is a dollar complex filled n electronic with the most devices and security equipment, yet there are no recreational programs, no counseling or educational and job training programs. The opportunity to rehabilitate inmates is therefore lost and it is not surprising that 87 percent of the offenders return to jail, usually to face more serious up-to-da- Between 20,000 to 23,000 and visited the various cells used to house prisoners. people were processed through the RogerJones, head jailer, facility in 1971. It costs about $6.00 conducted the tour and explained per day per man to house , supervise the security precautions, by and feed the prisoners. The jail has a demonstrating the T. V. cameras capacity of 346 prisoners. "More than 208 prisoners have used throughout the facility. The jail appeared to be fairly clean but seen a dentist and 170 have had charges. On the other side of the coin, several residents commented on the medical treatment last year," Jones poor venilation and extreme heat in stated. Emergency medical most jails operate with budgetary some of the areas. The residents were shown the kitchen and given sample menu's which included breakfasts of hash brown potatoes, eggs, bread and juice; light lunches of soup and sandwiches, jello or pudding; and dinners of meat, potatoes, vegetables and dessert. A resident questioned the use of special diets for diabetics Second Priority or other people with medical Drug Treatment 1. The use of existing agencies problems and was told no provision such as Oddesey House, Drug Crisis is made for such diets. Jones went on that such Center, Manhatten Project and the to explain, however, prisoners are attended by a doctor University Hospital. and he closely supervises the care Third Priority and medication of any prisoner Minority Police Officers having such problems. 1. Police Department coordinated with each other. 1 1 . Crimes versus ungovernable acts - - both are the same under the law and are treated the same under the law as far as juveniles are concerned. Fourth Priority This relates to Problem 2. There Lack of resources for first is need for differentiation between juvenile offenders criminal and ungovernable kinds of 1. Expansion of neighborhood behavior. A juvenile who has been probation units for fun from away having picked up 2. group homes a difficult home situation for seem to be generally the same as complaints about other penal facilities such as the State Prison, assistance the is also available through problems, inadequate manpower Holy Cross Hospital, he and expained. lack of trained, qualified personnel. Whether or not such tours a The tour was arranged in and investigations bring about December as a result of several substantial change in the penal complaints aired at a Crime and Delinquency Task Force meeting, While tour members were treated cordially and respectfully, several residents commented, "thatt not the way they treat someone being brought in." system will remain to be seen, but concern and effort to make change by the public is notably increasing, When enough pressure is placed on jail administrators and other public quthorities by concerned citizens, meaningful responsible |