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Going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. we're looking for gang affiliations, signs, searching for contraband, of course. >> most of the mail they process are letters written from one inmate to another, some 500 such letters per day. baron ochoa is a frequent user of the inmate to inmate mail system, the only...

On a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. we're looking for gang affiliations, signs, searching for contraband, of course. >> most of the mail they process are letters written from one inmate to another, some 500 such letters per day. baron ochoa is...

Their shift is completed for at least a couple hours. talking to the officers, you can see this is stressing them, really stretching it and hopefully we can do something about that in the near future so it isn't the proverbial rubber band and snap. >> the demands on staff extend beyond inmate housing units to service areas such as the jail's mail room. >> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, it's the volume of the mail. on a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine...

>> we're at least 120 officer short. right now we're doing what we call a mandatory overtime program where we're requiring officer to stay over after their shift is completed for a loost a couple hours. talking to the officers, you can see this is stressing them, really stretching it and hopefully we can do something about that in the near future so it isn't the proverbial rubber band and snap. >> it stretches to service areas like the mail room. >> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, it's the volume of the mail. on a busy day get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out...

Short. right now we're doing what we call a mandatory overtime program where we're requiring officers to stay over after their shift is completed for at least a couple hours. talking to the officers, you can see this is stressing them, really stretching it and hopefully we can do something about that in the near future so it isn't the proverbial rubber band and snap. >> the demands on staff extend beyond inmate housing units to service areas such as the jail's mail room. >> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, it's the volume of the mail. on a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pie...