Minn. R. agency 121, ch. 2911, PERSONNEL STANDARDS, pt. 2911.0900
The facility administrator shall prepare and retain a staffing plan.
The staffing plan shall identify:
The facility administrator or designee shall review the facility's staffing plan at least once each year. The review shall be documented in written form sufficient to indicate that staffing plans have been reviewed and revised as appropriate to the facility's needs or referred to the facility's governing body for funding consideration.
A facility with a design capacity of more than 60 beds must have a staffing analysis and staffing plan approved by the commissioner of corrections. This staffing analysis shall include all posts, functions, net annual work hours appropriate to each post, and total number of employees to fill the identified posts and functions.
There shall be a single administrator of each facility.
In Class I and Class II facilities with average daily inmate populations of less than 30, the administrator may be a designated staff person with primary responsibility other than administration of the facility.
Class III facilities with average daily inmate populations under 30 shall have a full-time staff person employed as facility administrator/program coordinator who shall not be classified as a custody person whose primary duty is supervision of inmates.
Class I to Class VI facilities with average daily inmate populations exceeding 30 shall have a single administrator of the facility whose duties are solely related to administration of the facility.
In Class I to Class VI facilities where multiple facilities are under a centralized administration, the total average daily inmate population of facilities involved shall determine the level of facility administration required. Where multiple facilities are under a centralized administration, the most stringent facility classification requirement with respect to facility administration shall be met.
Where the custodial responsibility of inmates exceeds 60, an assistant jail administrator shall be required. Assistant jail administrators shall not be classified as custody personnel whose primary duties are supervision of inmates.
Facility administration shall designate a staff person to be in charge at all times in the absence of administrative staff from the facility.
An inmate shall not be detained without custody staff on duty, present in the facility, awake and alert at all times, and capable of responding to emergencies or the reasonable needs of inmates.
Staff members shall not be placed in positions of responsibility for the supervision and welfare of inmates of the opposite gender in circumstances that can be described as invasion of privacy, degrading, or humiliating to the inmates. When staff of one gender are used as program resource personnel with inmates of the opposite gender, staff of the inmates' gender must be on duty and in the facility.
Maintenance personnel shall be employed to perform preventive, routine, and emergency maintenance functions. Custody staff shall not be given physical plant maintenance duties that detract from their primary responsibilities for ongoing supervision of inmates.
In a facility that uses the dispatcher or custody position as sole supervision, the dispatcher or custody staff person must be assisted on duty by another custody staff person when the facility's inmate population exceeds five.
In facilities that use the dispatcher or custody position as sole supervision, policy and procedures shall be implemented that assure a reasonable level of security and backup resource assistance for the dispatcher or custody person in circumstances that require emergency response assistance. The DOC shall review and approve the policy and procedures.
Class I to Class VI facilities' staff shall be provided as follows:
Class I to Class VI facility staff shall not be used for the external transportation of inmates or court security if the level of inmate supervision, inmate admission, programs, or internal inmate movement would be reduced below minimums afforded under the facility's staffing plan.
In a Class II facility a staff person shall be designated to coordinate community services and volunteer programming.
Class I facilities are exempt from the requirement in subpart 18, except those facilities approved by the commissioner to house inmates serving alternative sentences.
In a Class III and Class VI facility, a staff person shall be designated to coordinate educational and vocational programs, social service programs, work release, and volunteer services programs. The following minimum inmate to program staff ratio shall apply for the average daily population:
Class IV facilities shall meet the same requirements as Class III facilities unless 75 percent or greater of the inmates served are on a work release, educational release, community service, or sentencing to service status. When such is the case the program staff requirements may be reduced by 50 percent for the Class IV facility. When Class III and Class IV facility program staff requirements are met from a central source, rather than at each facility independently, the total program staff must be representative of the requirements applicable to each facility.
Class V facilities with 60 or fewer inmates shall provide program staff at one-half the ratio required for Class III facilities. If over 60 inmates, a staffing plan is required for assessment.
The ratio of custody staff to inmates may be reduced proportionate to the facility's population decrease during those hours that inmates are released from the facility for work release, educational release, community service, or sentencing to service activities.
No override reduction is allowed in any facility using a custody staff person or dispatcher as sole supervision or facilities using staffing patterns that employ one dispatcher and one custody staff person.
Facilities using the override allowed in this subpart must document the number of inmates in the facility on an hourly basis and those under the facilities' jurisdiction that are temporarily released from the facility for work, education, community service, or sentencing to service programs. The facility shall also document the number of available custody staff for the population housed in the facility on an hourly basis.
The number of program staff required shall be increased in facilities that provide program oversight and supervision of alternative to incarceration programs such as home detention, electronic monitoring, or sentencing to service involving offenders who are not incarcerated or detained in the facility a portion of each day.
Support staff requirements are as follows: clerical, maintenance, and food service staff shall be provided to meet operational requirements applicable to the facility.
Personnel shall be provided to perform ancillary functions such as transportation or court escort to the extent necessary to ensure that security, supervision of inmates, the administration of program activities, and the efficient operation of the facility are not reduced or jeopardized by such activities.
Minn. R. agency 121, ch. 2911, PERSONNEL STANDARDS, pt. 2911.0900
Statutory Authority: MS s 241.021