5.10.020 Supervision and surveillance.
(1) General Security.
(a) The bureau shall establish a positive means of identifying prisoners;
(b) Perimeter security shall be maintained;
(c) Security devices shall be maintained in proper working condition at all times;
(d) No prisoner shall be permitted to have authority over other prisoners.
(2) Prisoner Counts. The bureau shall develop a system for taking and recording prisoner counts. This procedure shall be followed at shift changes and at other regular or irregular times.
(3) Contraband Control.
(a) Any item or person entering or leaving a department facility shall be subject to search;
(b) When housed in the jail, prisoners who have regular contact outside the jail shall not be permitted contact with other prisoner classifications or entrance to areas frequented by other prisoners;
(c) There shall be irregularly scheduled searches for contraband in bureau facilities and all areas frequented by prisoners. Reports of such searches shall be made and kept on file;
(d) Conspicuously posted signs shall display the statutory penalty for giving or arranging to give anything to a prisoner without official authorization (RCW 9A.76.010, 9A.76.140, 9A.76.150, 9A.76.160). Non-English speaking visitors shall be informed of the statutory penalty either verbally or by posted signs in the appropriate language. (Added by Amended Ord. 94-041, May 25, 1994; Amended by Amended Ord. 08-137, Nov. 10, 2008, Eff date Jan. 1, 2009).