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RESOLUTION N0. 79-49 <br />INTRODUCED BY: Council as a Whole <br />AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION URGING THE OHIO <br />DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO SUSPEND APPLICATION <br />OF MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR JAILS IN OHIO WITH <br />REGARD TO 72-HOUR FACILITIES. <br />WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Correction, under the <br />authority of Ohio Revised Code Section 5120..06 and 5120.10, <br />has issued a publication entitled "Minimum Standards £or Jails in <br />Ohio", published April, 1978, hereina£ter referred to as "Jail <br />Standards"); and <br />WHEREAS, the jail standards, fail to adequately consider <br />the plight of many suburban communities whose jail facilities were <br />never intended to be used as long-term facilities and are so <br />situated as to make adaptation physically impossible; and <br />WHEREAS, in order to comply with the jail standards, it <br />will be necessary for Mayfield Village to have support from civic <br />leaders and the entire community because of the degree of planning <br />which will be necessary for extensive adaptation o£ the existing <br />jail facilities and the funds which must be raised in order to carry <br />out such adaptation; and <br />WHEREAS, Mayfield Village is not alone in this quandary <br />in that most communities in Cuyahoga County which have short-term <br />facilities find that these facilities are the most important <br />prisoner-housing facilities necessary to facilitate,proper police <br />protection services; and <br />WHEREAS, the jail standards designate many provisions <br />which are desirable for long-term facilities and make them mandatory <br />upon 72-hour facilities, creating an intolerable and impossible <br />hard'ship upon Mayfield Village without substantially improving the <br />lot of the prisoner; now, therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: <br />Section 1. This Council hereby urges the Ohio Department <br />of Correction, Bureau of Adult Detention Facilities and Services, <br />to at once suspend the application of "Minimum Standards for Jails <br />in Ohio" promulqated April, 1978, insofar as it applies to 72-hour <br />facillities, until a more extensive study can be made of the impact <br />that jail standards will have on the needs of local communities, on <br />law enforcement requirements, on financial problems created, on <br />the effect on prisoners and on the time periods within which communities <br />can reasonably comply with them.