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Hi! It's 5:30 p.m. and I just arrived
at the Brevard Country Jail Complex.
My name is Kimberly Hall, and I've been employed with
the Brevard County Sheriff's Office for 5 1/2 years.
I have 12 years with corrections. I started at Brevard
Correctional Institution, I was a sergeant over there.
I worked there for 6 1/2 years.
And now we're going to start our shift.
I'm going to go in and we're going to go into muster,
that's where we receive the Pass-On from today's shift.
"Don't forget, we go over these things a lot,
but with everything going on lately:
Officer safety, officer safety, officer safety.
We talked about it the last couple days, too.
Complacency.
Please, just because we work in this building,
doesn't mean that nothing can never happen.
Everybody's seen it on the news with
other correction's officers, agencies, etc.
Please be careful, don't get complacent."
So right now we're going to head down to 200 row
where we're signed in and get the Pass-On
from the dayshift officers.
Two, control your front door please.
Hello, how are you doing?
"Good, I gave them the Pass-On. Echo 469, they left their
equipment, there's an air-rater going on, they
said to leave it on just for the air, they'll be back tomorrow.
He's got their numbers. Feed sheets, no problems."
Okay, it was a good night?
"Good night, good day. Everybody was good.
No issues, no problems."
Okay, great.
"Nothing else is a wreck."
Alright have a wonderful day!
"Have a good one!"
"Be safe!"
So at this time right now we're going to do
a security check, and we're going to go around
and conduct count, because accountability
is very important here at the Jail.
So right now, they're verifying the feed sheet
to the board to make sure all the numbers match and
that everybody is housed where they're supposed to be.
So what he's doing is, he's reading the board
and she's comparing it to the feed sheet to make
sure everybody is housed in the appropriate rooms.
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So what we're getting ready to do right now is go in and
count to make sure all inmates are accounted for.
And we're going to go into Alpha pod.
So what we have is I got one officer that is going
to go upstairs, and one that's going to go downstairs,
and then I'll verify the numbers.
And what they're checking for right now is just
making sure that everybody is in there.
"21"
Good count.
"24"
Alright, good count.
So now we'll exit the pod out of F door,
and we'll call in our Sergeant to verify.
Hi, this is Cpl. Hall calling with 200 row's count.
"What'cha got?"
Alpha 45.
Bravo 47
Charlie 46
Delta 46
Echo 0
Fox 47
For a total of 231.
Okay, thank you. You too, thank you.
So right now we're going to pass mail
to the inmates that was issued today at muster.
2 control, I'll take 52 please.
Durell.
"Yes?"
You have mail.
"Oh, I do? Thank you."
You're welcome.
2 control, I'll take 85 please.
Morris.
"Yes?"
You have mail.
Also at this time our inmates are on lockdown,
and lockdown is from 6-8 at this time.
At 8 o' clock, we'll do another security check,
and then we'll let them all out of their cells
and they can use the phones, play cards.
So ???? is our 200 trustee,
and the trustee's, they wear a tan top and blue bottoms.
As you can tell.
The other inmates just have on a blue top and blue bottoms,
and this is how we distinguish the trustees from the regular inmates.
Thursday night, which is supply night, consists of
toilet tissue, soap, and toothpaste.
So we'll go ahead and get that prepared right now.
2 control, I'll take 201 please.
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So what we have going on right now is medication pass.
The inmates will come out, and the nurse will verify
the inmate by their arm band, and an officer will verify
the feed sheet, but once they take their medication
the officer will do a mouth check on them to make sure
they swallowed it and took it properly.
So at this time we're going to head down to Staff Dining.
Where we're going to meet, because we're going to do a
search for contraband in the pod. And contraband
is anything altered from its original state, anything
that wasn't issued by the department or the facility.
So you'll be amazed at some of the things we're going to find.
So this is my Sergeant, Sgt. Harrypasad.
"What do you guys got planned for tonight?"
We're getting ready to do a search for contraband.
"Okay."
In the pod.
"Anything specific that you're looking for?"
Just anything contraband, any and all contraband.
"Alright, let's go ahead and we'll get started.
We're going to go down and we're going to do a
little bit of shakedown in 200 Bravo."
"Normal things that we're looking for: contraband,
weapons, clutter, unauthorized items."
"What we're going to do is we're going to go in there,
get everybody out of the cell, tell them to put on their
normal jail uniform, no extra things, no socks,
no sweatshirts, no undershirts..."
"So everybody, let's go in first, get them out,
line up a couple of you, have them line up on the wall,
and then we'll shoot them out into the Sally port,
and I'll need probably all the rest of the males out there,
patting them down, getting them out into the Rec Yard.
And then after, we'll go back in and do it. Got it?"
"Alright, make sure you got proper gloves, and
things like that, and let's head down there."
Alright, let's do it.
So at this time right now, we're looking for all the
extra items and excess, anything that's altered from its
original state, any weapons, any extra sheets, any extra
uniforms, any garbage, we're just getting rid of it at the time.
Here is what the inmates, they peel the paint
off of the wall and they make paintballs.
Sometimes they're small like this, and sometimes
they're large. They use them as weapons and stuff.
Sometimes they put them into socks and hit other inmates.
So now what we'll do is we're going to go get the trustees,
and they'll come in and help us clean all this stuff up.
We will bag all the linen together, and we'll take
those mats out and clean them.
In corrections, I feel like no day is the same.
I can come in tonight, and tonight could be a great night.
I can come in tomorrow, and it'll be total chaos.
So you have to come in, I also prey before I walk
through these doors, I prey for myself, I prey for my
co-workers, I prey for the inmates as well.
I prey for everybody. I prey that everybody goes home
the way that they came in.
Don't let anyone or anything define who you are,
because you can always find good in a bad situation.
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