NCJ Number
81591
Date Published
1980
Length
51 pages
Annotation
Intake policies and procedures are presented for the implementation of standards in Massachusetts county jails.
Abstract
Overall policy commits each jail to the provision of an orderly and supervised intake process for all admitted. Accordingly, general responsibility for intake shall be assigned to a trained booking officer, who shall ensure that the inmate or detainee is legally admitted to the jail. The officer will also ensure that the jail's intake practices meet the Department of Correction standards for county correctional facilities and the highest common denominator of national correctional standards. The regulations presented in this manual are intended to coordinate activities in the booking, medical, security, human service, and records department for intake processing. They detail the sequence of activities necessary for proper intake and provide an intake checklist for necessary activities. Specific activities covered by the regulations are logging in admission and inmate frisk search, legal admission of jail and house inmates, use of the jail as a police lockup, fingerprinting, photographing, intake records, inmate personal property and money inventory, personal hygiene, medical receiving screening and strip search, initial housing assignment, and human service screening interview. For each of these procedure areas, the responsible staff is indicated, and standards requirements, policy statements, definitions, and procedures are provided. Forms to be used in the procedures are also included.