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Subsequently, the consultants had the opportunity to visit with some County officials individually and to interview jail supervisors, staff, and inmates. The interviews were conducted to further identify concerns and problems with the new jail operation. They also help define the scope of problems and were a source of additional documentation of operations. In all cases, those nersons interviewed had the same ~loal -- a well-run, safe and secure iail facility. Even the inmates shared this cmal althouoh exoressed in somewhat different terms. Jail staff provided ali available documents that were either requested prior to the post occupancy monitoring visit or during the visit as new issues surfaced. Documents included the following: Floor plans of the building; The policies and procedures currently in use; The post orders for each staff post/position; The Master Facility Schedule which list all of the days activities and the time it is scheduled to occur; Inmate disciplinary reports; Disciplinary hearing reports; Incident reports of the vandalism which occurred FM Vending refunds; and, The classification files of the inmates involved in the vandalism. Some of these documents were reviewed during the post occupancy monitoring visit. Others were reviewed after the visit because of time constraints while on-site. The consultants examined the site of the last vandalism event -- disciplinary detention, also know as Sigma 4. The damage was extensive to two ceI~ door windows and the windows in the dayroom. One cell door window had already been removed but a second cell door window was still in place, It appeared that the remaining cell door window sustained severe damage from attack with a heavy sharp object without the window failing, that is, at no time was the inmate able to break the window completely out or to create a hole large enough to crawl through. During the tour and while interviewing staff and Inmates, each consultant had several hours to observe jail operations. Observing jail operations gave the consultants valuable Information from which to determine the validity and extent of problems. Interestingly a newspaper had used the term "riot" In a headline. The consultants could find nothing that would even remotely suggest that a riot was imminent. To the contrary, the inmate housing areas Cass County Jail Project 3