Hennepin County Freezes Sheriff's Office Overtime

This is from a post by Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley. This resolution was passed in March. (This was just brought to our attention.)

It's nice to see the exception for "Detention Deputies serving directly within the Adult Detention Center" for hiring but not OT! 

This appears to be a slap in the face of the HCSO for providing law enforcement during the ICE surge and backfilling in Minneapolis for the very short staffed Minneapolis Police Department.  

As a taxpayer I firmly support staying within a budget, but this same Commissioner Conely has many public posts wanting to provide Medicare and food benefits to non-citizens. Those should be the first cut! 

So if Minneapolis is short on a busy day or night and the Sheriff's Office is hitting overtime do they go home? 

Or if the jail is understaffed do they release inmates? Leave them locked in? The County Commissioners should leave the operation of the Office to the Sheriff.

The citizens of Minneapolis are also Hennepin County residents and taxpayers. They deserve protection.

Inmate Identified who died at Saint Louis Co Jail

 

DULUTH, Minn. (KQDS-TV) -- The identity of the inmate who died in the St. Louis County Jail on August 8 has been released.

According to officials with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the inmate has been identified as Jonathan David Polaski, 29, of Prior Lake.

The Sheriff's Office says that Polaski had a medical emergency and was given lifesaving measures, including CPR and the use of an AED.

Polaski did not regain consciousness and was pronounced dead.

The BCA says the investigation into the death is ongoing.

Source FOX 21

2 big Detention News Items

First the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton will be reopened by ICE to house Illegal Aliens!

FULL STORY MPR NEWS

Second story the Feds are threatening to arrest Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt over lack of access for ICE to inmates.

FULL STORY Fox 9

Happy 250th Independence Day!

 

Jail takeover, 2 Guards held as hostages.

 Thankfully this is now resolved!

Happy Memorial Day

 

May 3rd is National Correctional Officer Week

 May 4, 1987

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

No group of Americans has a more difficult or less publicly visible job than the brave men and women who work in our correctional facilities. Correctional officers who work in jails and prisons are currently responsible for the safety, containment, and control of more than 600,000 prisoners. Correctional officers must protect inmates from violence from fellow prisoners, while encouraging them to develop skills and attitudes that can help them become productive members of society after their release.

The general public should fully appreciate correctional officials' capable handling of the physical and emotional demands made upon them daily. Their profession requires careful and constant vigilance, and the threat of violence is always present. At the same time, these dedicated employees try to improve the living conditions of those who are being confined.

It is appropriate that we honor the correctional officers in all our institutions, at all levels of government, for their invaluable contributions to our society.

The Congress, by Public Law 99 - 611, has designated the week beginning May 3, 1987, as ``National Correctional Officers Week'' and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 3, 1987, as National Correctional Officers Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate activities and ceremonies.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.

Ronald Reagan

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:42 a.m., May 5, 1987]