SURRENCY SUBMITS JAIL REFORM

PACKAGE TO BOARD CLERK

 Requests They Appear on May 19th Agenda

& Fast-Tracked for Approval

(BRIDGETON, NJ) – Cumberland County Freeholder Jack Surrency today officially submitted a package of resolutions to address the naked ineptitude at the county jail, requesting they be posted and fast-tracked for action.

“These reforms can make a difference in people’s lives now,” said Freeholder Jack Surrency (D-Bridgeton). “Anything short of taking swift action on these measures is professional misconduct.”

Surrency, a Bridgeton resident, submitted to Freeholder Board Clerk Kimberly Wood a package of four resolutions.  The package contains the following reform proposals:

• Resolution to provide hazard pay for corrections officers retroactive to March 9

• Resolution requiring the weekly mandatory reporting of all personal protection equipment on hand as well as all personal protection equipment ordered, but not yet received, regardless of source.

• Resolution mandating that the Cumberland County Department of Corrections mandate weekly testing for Covid-19 as to corrections officers and civilian employees, establish protocols for access to weekly testing as to corrections officers, to publish weekly to the public data as to Covid-19 testing concerning corrections officers, staff and inmates, and to implement a policy of aggressive tracing as to any positive test.

• Resolution mandating the immediate adoption of the New Jersey Attorney General Guidelines by the Cumberland County Department of Corrections with the updating of all applicable policies within 90 Days.

“We need testing, reporting, contact tracing, PPE levels, state guidelines put in place and protocols established” said Surrency. “This is the fight of our lives. County government needs to raise its game and we need to do it now.”

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