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U.S. NEWS Friday 26 July 2019

APNewsBreak: Inspection finds persistent problems at jail

By MARK GILLISPIE and staff. Problems with tively” with MetroHealth
Associated Press medical and mental health Medical Center, the public
CLEVELAND (AP) — A state care for inmates also were health system the county
inspection of a troubled cited in the report. pays to provide medical
county jail in Cleveland in The state, after essentially care at the jail.
early July found that prob- giving the jail a clean bill of “These changes are neces-
lems with medical care, health in 2017, inspected sary to ensure compliance
sanitation and inmate lock- the jail shortly after the re- with the Standards for Jails
downs persist months after lease of the U.S. Marshals in Ohio,” Adams wrote.
they were first cited in fed- Service report and said the The memo noted that the
eral and state inspections, jail was noncompliant in jail’s ability to enforce its
according to a memo ob- 84 of the state’s 135 stan- contract with MetroHealth
tained by The Associated dards. for “non-performance” is
Press. Gov. Mike DeWine said limited because officials
Officials from the Ohio De- June 7 that he had ordered must go through County
partment of Rehabilitation improvements in the state’s Executive Armond Bud-
and Correction’s Bureau jail inspection system and ish, which the memo said
of Adult Detention con- an increase in the inspec- “adds additional hurdles
ducted a site visit at the tion staff from six to 15 em- to ensure that MetroHealth
Cuyahoga County Correc- ployees “to enable them to is delivering promised ser- This Feb. 20, 2019 file photo, shows the exterior of the Cuyahoga
tions Center on July 3. conduct inspections on all vices.” County Corrections Center in Cleveland.
The jail is not adequately minimum standards each Budish and his administra- Associated Press
evaluating and tracking year” at Ohio’s 300 local tion are the focus of a state tions, a former warden and also the subject of a fed-
inmate medical care and jails. and federal corruption more than a half-dozen eral civil rights investiga-
doesn’t maintain a “con- The state previously exam- probe while the county’s corrections officers face tion over its treatment of
tinuity of care” for inmates ined essential standards former director of correc- criminal charges. The jail is inmates.q
returning from hospitals, annually and minimum
said a memo written by standards once every two
Bureau of Adult Detention years.
Administrator John Adams The Republican gover-
and dated July 18. nor said he had ordered
The memo also said that monthly compliance moni-
while sanitation has im- toring of the Cuyahoga
proved, areas of the jail re- County jail and said “ad-
main “unclean,” including ditional legal action” could
food preparation and tray be taken if the jail fails “to
cleaning areas. Prolonged demonstrate significant
lockdowns of inmates in improvements.” An inspec-
their cells continue when tion in early June found the
large numbers of correc- jail noncompliant on 66
tions don’t report for work, standards and on 63 stan-
the memo said. dards in July.
“The memo shows we are DeWine asked for a review
working hard to make im- of the jail inspection system
provements in the county in March while noting that
jail. We are committed to eight inmates had died at
continuing the progress,” the Cuyahoga County jail
Cuyahoga County spokes- last year.
woman Mary Louise Madi- Adams’ July memo cited
gan said. three dates in June when
The U.S. Marshals Service in inmates were locked in
November issued a report their cells because of “call
that said the grossly over- offs” by corrections officers.
crowded jail was plagued On June 15, for example,
by “inhumane” conditions, 36 corrections officers
abusive behavior by cor- called off work for the first
rections officers and un- shift, and another 26 called
sanitary conditions, and off on second shift.
concluded the lockup was Adams wrote that the jail
unsafe for both inmates needs to work “collabora-
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