The article City Jails Unregulated Despite Deaths, Complaints was an eye- opening. Did you know that although county jails are monitored for safety, nutrition, and care of inmates, city jails have no such standards. Often times complaints are disregarded because there is no higher authority to take the complaint to. Matt Simpson, a policy strategist, states that it is too expensive to hold city jails to the same basic standards as county jails. If city jails can’t afford to be run to standard, I don’t believe it should be running at all. Many people in city jails are locked up for fairly minor violations of the law, but in return aren’t even getting the proper medical care or safety with in the jail, but on the other hand the inmates in the county jail, with much worse infractions, are taken care of on a higher standard. Up to 40% of deaths in city jails are suicides. That leaves me with an uneasy feeling that the inmates are not properly being watched.
Many times lawmaker advocacy groups have tried to bring city jails to standard, but have been denied. Municipal jail officials contest that it is not necessary to hold jails to this standard because of the short time that inmates serve in jail and the cost of hiring the new watch. It is estimated to cost $390,000 to inspect city jails. I understand that that it may be expensive, but I do believe a standard is necessary to make sure that the jail is run in an acceptable manner.
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This is a scary matter when you see how uncontrolled the city jails are being runned. It may seem that they are being watched and taken care of but as it states in Reanna's blog that "up to 40% of deaths in city jails are suiside." Like Reanna says, how can these people really be treated great and always taken care of that they have such a horrible life that 40% of deaths are suiside in a city jail. I can also say that I may disagree with Reanna a little on when she says that if the city jails are not being taken care of properly that they should not even be here. Although most people that are there are only there for short periods of time where would they be if they had no punishment? So I do have to say that we need the systems running but it seems to me that most people are clearly not being taken care of properly. They say that it is expensive to inspect the city jails but maybe they need to be check every few years so that they MUST keep up with standereds. If they inspect these city jails and they are up to standards then the suiside rate should majorly go down. They city jail inspection could make things a lot better for a lot of people if we just took care of the jail and they people that are in them.