The Rainbows generally try to take care of illnesses on their own. It will be difficult for health officials to monitor small numbers of illnesses within the gathering. If people become sick enough to get to outside health officials, those illnesses will be reported through routine health reporting System. Notification of state officials in this case will be relatively fast because of prenotification of area medical facilities and doctors by the Health Dept. The mission of the Corrections Department in this instance is to provide secure lockup facilities to hold people who are detained for illegal activities during the Rainbow gathering.
Contingencies exist based on several different scenarios which are outlined below.
The Corrections Department can handle without much difficulty 10 individual arrests over a week to ten day period. Normal turnover in the centers would provide adequate space for routine arrests made for violent crimes, drug, alcohol or theft crimes. 50 people can be placed in the Weeks building at the state hospital. Between 20 - 50 violent individuals can be housed for no more than 48 hours in the gym at the Northwest facility in St. Albans. A mass arrest of violent offenders is the worst case scenario facing corrections officials.