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“Because of the impact of opioids in our community, we’ve got to start providing treatment to those folks coming into custody that lasts throughout the time that they’re incarcerated. Every piece of mail gets reviewed that’s coming through for just those substances that you’re talking about.” … We have mail staff that are looking through the mail. So we’re currently selecting the officers and then we’ll match them with the dog and send them to training. The legislature in the last biennium provided funding for two canine officers and the drug detection dogs. We have some interdiction efforts underway. So there is a desire by those folks that have used and abused drugs in the past to try and acquire them while they’re in custody and they’ll use whatever means possible. Over 60% of our adults in custody have a substance use disorder and about 10% of that is an opioid issue.

“I think you have to look at the underlying issue that’s driving some of that behavior by the adults in custody. So I think setting clear boundaries and having discipline systems that work and that hold people accountable.” And it really upsets me personally and our staff that are doing good work when we have somebody engage in that misconduct because it takes away from our credibility and our legitimacy and paints all of us with a broad brush.

#MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE JAIL ROSTER PROFESSIONAL#

“Criminal misconduct of any nature by a corrections professional is reprehensible, and we’re going to hold that person accountable. On holding staff accountable for misconduct: … We are in the process of issuing appropriate clothing to the women in custody, not clothing that was designed for the men, but clothing that’s designed for the women.” We have really committed staff that want to do that work. I think there’s some brilliant thinking and how we can have a gender-informed approach to corrections and we’ve got a lot of work to do at Coffee Creek. “I think the gender-informed practices assessment, the GIPA report, is a roadmap for us to be successful, not just at Coffee Creek but across all of our institutions. On the issues at Coffee Creek women’s prison: We’re doing everything we can to be agile, maybe moving populations of adults in custody from one institution to another to help relieve some of that strain on staff because some of our institutions are fully staffed.” … It’s really dire and the staff are working a lot of mandatory overtime shifts and that’s hard on them and their families. So three to four months after you’ve applied is when you’re going to start. All of that takes time, the background process. It’s also going to require psychological exams, medical tests. So when you start that employment process with us, it’s a written test. We’ve got a lot of competition from Amazon or other large employers there and our hiring practices because we want to make sure we’re hiring the right people for this job (and) it takes a while to vet them.

“Hiring anywhere in public safety, I believe right now is one of the biggest issues whether you’re a chief of police or a sheriff or you’re running corrections agencies across the United States … For us at DOC, I think what makes it even more challenging is that we’re hiring from some local markets like Pendleton and Umatilla where we’ve got some staffing issues. On staff vacancies and hiring difficulties: The following excerpts from that interview have been edited for length and clarity.

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Her trial was set for February.“Think Out Loud” host Dave Miller recently interviewed Reese. Harris was initially booked into the jail on murder charges, although these were later reduced to manslaughter and Harris was released to await trial.īut in December 2021, prosecutors asked for Harris to be returned to jail, citing a history of violent behavior and her failure to enroll in a residential treatment program. They talked to her daughter, who said the two had a history of domestic violence. He’d just been released from prison and had come to her home and attacked her, she told police. Harris had been in county jail in 2021 after running over her ex-husband with her car. I had no reason to believe that any would be fatal.” “I’m devastated,” her latest attorney, Alicia Hercher, tells WW. She had been given a psychiatric evaluation while in jail last year after her defense attorney raised concerns she wasn’t mentally capable of contributing to her own defense, but those concerns were later dropped after Harris petitioned for a new attorney. It is not clear what health problems Harris had.

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