There Will Always Be Tomorrow by vern thornton

Author:vern thornton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

1- An alarm would sound;

2- An electric impulse would throw open the doors to the dog cages;

3- The dogs were trained to immediately respond to the visiting area.

Jail personnel did a great job in perpetuating the myth; Inmates believed that this sequence of events would happen in the event of an attempted escape through the windows of the visiting area.

Need for Added Services

The jail system was spending an inordinate amount of money on medical care. Prisoners who hadn’t seen a doctor or dentist in years were demanding to be taken immediately for medical services.

To meet these needs required that prisoners be transported to and from doctors offices by armed deputies and if hospitalization was needed, around the clock security had to be established outside the patient’s hospital room’s door.

Police departments were not hesitant in dropping off new arrestees who were injured or wounded, knowing that the care and expense of their prisoner would fall on the jails.

High on my things to do list was bringing some sort of medical services into the jails. The federal courts were adamant that medical assistance be available to all inmates in the same manner as medical services would be obtainable on the outside. Research on the subject provided me with the name of a newly formed medical operation qualified to take over the entire medical needs of the jails. Prison Health Services out of Delaware seemingly had success in the field of inmate health care.

I contacted medical officers at the Dade County Jail who had a great deal of experience with inmate health issues. I sent staff down to Miami to study their medical infirmary and their sick call procedures.

We contracted with their chief medical officer to analyze operations of Prison Health Services and to review the company’s policies and procedures. If Prison Health Services could survive the grilling examination that they were about to undergo, and if reports were favorable, then Broward County Jails would enter into contract with the group.

Reports were more than favorable and after negotiations, Sheriff Butterworth and PHS President Doyle Moore signed a contract that resulted in complete medical services provided the entire jails system. Prison Health was responsible for doctors, nurses, infirmary care, mental health operations, dentistry and all other medical needs of the prisoner. For the first time, a complete physical could be given an arrestee upon entering the system. PHS was anxious to succeed. The Broward contact would be their first in a major jail setting with a large prison population.

Food, Always a Problem

Food is always a concern in any jail. But, to provide three meals a day to five facilities, totaling over 900 inmates, with only one operating kitchen became a massive problem.

Costs of meals per day also had to be kept to a minimum.

Sgt. Willie Roberts was in charge of food operations. He was also the chef. Menus had to be planned; provisions had to be purchased. All meals that were prepared at the Main Jail had to be transported by van to all other facilities located throughout the county and this had to be repeated three time a day.

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