TITLE: Honoring the detention service officers and employees of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department during National Correctional Officers and Employees Week.

SUMMARY: Honoring the detention service officers and employees of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department during National Correctional Officers and Employees Week.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, National Correctional Officers and Employees Week is being observed from May 3 to 9, 2015, and this is a fitting opportunity to celebrate the dedication and hard work of the staff of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department; and WHEREAS, President Ronald Reagan created National Correctional Officers Week in 1984, and two years later, Congress expanded the focus to honor both correctional officers and other vital employees of our nation's prisons and jails; and WHEREAS, The seventh-largest jail system in the nation, the Dallas County Jail is staffed by 1,500 licensed detention officers and 200 clerks, and its facilities encompass five jails and a state-of-the-art, centralized medical and mental health unit; the system supports more than 85 law enforcement agencies in the Dallas County area, and it has passed inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for six years in a row; and WHEREAS, Each year, 80,000 inmates are booked into the Dallas County Jail, which provides custodial care and control for approximately 6,000 inmates on any given day; the volume of work accomplished annually by the jail's detention service officers and employees includes the transporting of approximately 20,000 inmates for a total distance of about 1.5 million miles, the supervising of 400,000 sick calls and off-site appointments, and the dispensing of 5 million pills, as well as the serving of more than 9 million inmate meals and the washing of 3.4 million pounds of laundry; jail staff also process 100,000 criminal and civil court cases a year and more than 1.7 million pages of documents, such as police reports, fingerprint cards, medical forms, and jail records, every month; and WHEREAS, Correctional officers and employees fill a demanding role in our society, simultaneously ensuring the safety of the public and the welfare of the inmates in their care, and they handle their often dangerous duties with courage, patience, and resourcefulness; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas Legislature hereby honor the detention service officers and employees of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department on the occasion of National Correctional Officers and Employees Week and extend to them sincere best wishes for continued success in their important work. Rose Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 2411 was adopted by the House on May 21, 2015, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House