Yolo SHRF Monroe Detention Center (2025-2026 inspection cycle)

Initial Inspection Report 2025-2026 Biennial Inspection Cycle Date of Exit Briefing: 7/22/2025 Inspection Type: Comprehensive County: Yolo Facility Name(s): Monroe Detention Center BSCC #(s): 6090 BSCC Type: II Facility Representatives: Captain Juan Ceja along with Lieutenants Dennis Gaines, Dallas Timm, and Tabitha Hamblin BSCC Field Representative: Jovin Adamos Corrective Action Plan Required? YES DATE CAP DUE TO BSCC: 8/25/2025 Current Items of Noncompliance Title 15. Section Description § 1027.5 Safety Checks Safety Checks for housing units, sobering cells, and (d) Safety checks shall occur at random or restraint placements are seldom randomized. varied intervals. § 1028. Fire and Life Safety Staff The administration will need to confirm CPR (2) Correctional officers shall be certified in certification of its staff and allow BSCC staff access of CPR and a copy of the certification shall be the central location these documents are available for on file in the facility or at a central location review. and available for review. § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual (6) Security and control including physical counts and searches of the facility and incarcerated persons, contraband control, and key control. The administration will need to provide BSCC staff with their documented annual review and evaluation Each facility administrator shall, at least of internal and external security measures of the annually, review, evaluate, and make a facility to include the requirements per the regulation. record of security measures. The review and evaluation shall include internal and external security measures of the facility including security measures specific to prevention of sexual abuse and sexual harassment. Yolo County Initial Inspection Report Page 2 Title 15. Section Description § 1056. Use of Sobering Cell The sobering cell described in Title 24, Part 2, Section 1231.2.4, shall be used for Health staff determines if a person is placed into a temporary holding of incarcerated people sobering cell and notates the justification on a who are a threat to their own safety or the medical Sobering Cell Monitoring Log. This safety of others due to their state of information was not made available for review. intoxication. Direct visual observations were not conducted Intermittent direct visual observation of intermittently. people held in the sobering cell shall be conducted no less than every half hour. Such observation shall be documented. § 1058. Use of Restraint Devices (b) Policy shall also include, but not be limited to, the following requirements: (4) An incarcerated person shall be placed in restraints only with the approval of the facility manager, the facility watch commander, or responsible health care staff; continued retention shall be reviewed a minimum of The facility’s policy is inaccurate with the portion every hour. regarding continued retention and the evaluation for continued retention is not notated in the observation (11) All events and information related to the logs. placement in restraints shall be documented and shall be video recorded unless exigent According to the restraint placement reports, it is not circumstances prevent staff from doing so. clear on who specifically approves the placement into The documentation shall include: the reason a restraint device. for placement; person authorizing placement; names of staff involved in the placement; injuries sustained; and the duration of placement. Yolo County Initial Inspection Report Page 2 Title 15. Section Description § 1265. Issue of Personal Care Items Each person to be held over 24 hours who is unable to supply themself with the following personal care items, because of either indigency or the absence of a canteen, shall A policy to coincide with these portions of the be issued: regulation was not available. (e) Shaving implements. Incarcerated people will not share disposable razors. Title 24. Section Description None