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AGENCY TESTIMONY
BOC's monitoring staff needs and capacity expansion
4:20:19
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Jasmine Georges-Yilla emphasizes the critical need for additional monitoring staff to effectively oversee jail conditions and meet the board's oversight responsibilities.
- Currently have only 12 monitoring staff for approximately 6,800 people in custody
- Seeking funding for three new investigations and compliance monitors
- Request for four correctional standards review specialists to improve staff-to-incarcerated person ratio
- Aim to improve ratio from 1:565 to 1:375
- Stresses the importance of additional funding as 'both lives and fundamental fairness are at stake'
Jasmine Georges-Yilla
4:20:19
Monitoring staff are critical to BOC's mission.
4:20:23
We have only 12 monitoring staff who conduct oversight in the jails, court pens, and hospital jail wards.
4:20:32
With approximately 6,800 people in custody, our monitoring capacity remains severely inadequate.
4:20:40
While we expect to onboard two new monitors this year, further expansion is critical.
4:20:47
Specifically, we seek funding for three new investigations and compliance monitors who will combine qualitative and quantitative methodologies to systematically assess compliance with the board's minimum standards.
4:21:02
Additionally, four correctional standards review specialists are needed to improve the monitoring staff to incarcerated person ratio from one staff member per 565 individuals in custody to one staff member per 375 individuals in custody.
4:21:21
Securing this additional funding is essential as both lives and fundamental fairness are at stake.
4:21:29
Additionally, the board must have sufficient research capacity to analyze the extensive data it receives from DOC and CHS.