Pecos County Non-Compliant Jail Report

Jail Name

Pecos County 

Report Date

09/20/2016 

Number of days

unknown 

Inspector

Jackie Semmler 

Original Report

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Notes and Summary

• Jailers are required to receive training for emergency situations, drill and the location and use of life safety equipment immediately upon employment. A review of the training logs indicated that Jailer Donnie Delacruz was appointed a temporary license on April 4, 2016 and did not receive training until May 18, 2016
• On the day of inspection, maintenance could not provide documentation to verify when the court holding cells were last inspected by a certified fire inspector.
• On the day of inspection, this inspector requested to see the log to verify that a report
  is sent to the Veteran’s Reentry Service System as required by jail standards. The jail
  administrator stated that she has not been able to send a report. This inspector
  provided her with the information to submit the report manually and made contact with a county to assist her with submitting the reports via the software they are currently using.
• Jailers are not receiving suicide prevention training in accordance with the approved
  operational plan. The approved operation plan states that jailers will receive training for 3 hours every quarter and the training is not occurring.
• Jailers are required to have a temporary license issue by TCOLE prior to working in the jail. After reviewing documentation it was determined that Donnie Dominguez first day of employment was on March 14, 2016 but he did not have a temporary license as required.

Violation Types

• Admission - Chapter 265: Admission
• Health Services - Chapter 273: Health Services
• Life Safety Rules
• Supervision Of Inmates - Chapter 275.1

Pecos County Non-compliant Jail Reports