The citizens panel urged reforms, saying the welfare fund needed better management and more focus
Records show revenue from jail phone service, commissary sales steered to department expenses in addition to education
“We sit in our cells all day for the most part,” the woman told the newspaper. “All anybody wants is something to do, a class, anything.” “The normal operating costs of running a county jail — expenses for meals, clothing, housing and medical services for incarcerated individuals — were to be paid using tax-supported general funds of the sheriff’s departments,” it added.
But the requirement was loosened in 1993 to say profits should be used primarily — not solely — to benefit people in custody. The same law also granted elected sheriffs discretion to spend the money on department needs such as jail maintenance and employee salaries. In recent decades, the profits generated by commissaries in San Diego County jails have swelled to millions of dollars per year.
It is not clear how much progress the sheriff’s department may have made toward spending down the reserves, because officials would not release details on the fund balance. Instead, the department said the questions would be processed as a request under the California Public Records Act.
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