Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 8.48 Work/Education Furlough Program

The Board of Supervisors hereby finds and declares that a Work/Education Furlough Program for the Mendocino County jail is both feasible and necessary for the following reasons:

(A) Such a program would permit inmates to continue or secure employment so as to ensure their employment upon release, despite the high rate of unemployment within the County, and to enable them to adequately support their dependents without additional public assistance.

(Ord. No. 1732, adopted 1976.)

(B) Such a program would permit undertrained and undereducated inmates to participate in the many excellent local training programs, and in training and educational opportunities offered by the Community College, and thereby better equip such inmates to secure employment upon release.

(Ord. No. 1732, adopted 1976.)

(C) Such a program would contribute to the optimum utilization of Mendocino County's Rehabilitation Center.

(Ord. No. 1732, adopted 1976.)

(D) Such a program would, in the opinion of the Probation Department make possible a much more comprehensive rehabilitation program and contribute to a lower rate of recidivism within the County.

(Ord. No. 1732, adopted 1976.)

The Probation Officer shall act as the administrator of the Work/Education Furlough Program. However, all guidelines and regulations necessary for the implementation of the program shall be jointly developed by the Sheriff and Probation Officer and shall not be effective without the specific approval of both such officials.

(Ord. No. 1732, adopted 1976.)

The Chief Probation Officer shall have the authority to enter into agreements with any other county or counties whereby persons sentenced to, or imprisoned in, the jail of one county, but regularly employed in another county, may be transferred by the sheriff of the county in which he is confined to the jail of the county in which he is employed, in order that he may be enabled to continue in his regular employment in such other county through such county's work furlough program. Any such agreement shall comply fully with standards established by Resolution of the Board of Supervisors.

(Ord. No. 2080, adopted 1978.)