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The Western Region Detention Facility in Downtown’s aging ex-county jail is looking for a new chief of security to make “improvements in security operations without compromise to the safety and security of the client population or staff.” Run by Boca Raton-based private prison operator GEO Group for the U.S. Marshals Service, the detention center faced a crisis this fall when 86 detainees turned up Covid-19 positive, according to a November 2 report by TV station KGTV. In addition, 64 GEO employees tested positive for the deadly virus.
But handling the pandemic hasn’t been the facility’s only problem. A decrepit prisoner intake system sometimes leaves police prisoner drop-offs idling outside, with potentially dangerous outcomes. The jail’s chief of security, per an online job notice, “plans and responds to emergency situations, directs searches for escaped offenders,” and “participates in the formulation of escape and riot control plans.”