Dear Commissioners:

PLEASE READ THIS LETTER INTO THE RECORD:

Please help me to understand why these transport figures differ so greatly from those
presented by CCA.

CCA has stated that inmates will be awaiting trial and will be passing through the
detention facility, their stay being 17-60 days generally.

Using the longest stay of 60 days, and using the inmate number of 1500, and using the
fact that the inmate will be transported to trial, here are the figures:

1500 divided by 60 = 25 inmates traveling to court every day. This is assuming that each
inmate will stay in the facility for the full 60 days and that each inmate will only have to
appear in court one time.

The truth, however, is that an inmate will be going to court minimally for arraignment,
for a preliminary hearing, for trial, and, if guilty, for sentencing. Courts will be setting
court dates and continuances, and, as we all know, preliminary hearings and trials can go
on for many days and continuances are commonplace. However, assuming that all
inmates have only a one day trial and there are never any continuances, that is four
appearances within their 60 day stay.

Do the math! That’s a multiplier of minimal 4 times the above number. It will take
transport of 100 INMATES TRAVELING TO LAS VEGAS EVERY SINGLE DAY IN
ORDER TO PROCESS 1500 INMATES WITHIN 60 DAYS.

100 inmates being transported through the center of our town every single day could be
tragic. And, if the inmate stay is shorter than 60 days (say 17 days each), that will
increase the number of transports dramatically, to more than 300 per day. And, if the
facility becomes a 5000 inmate capacity facility as deduced from CCA’s site development
plan, the number of transports again rises dramatically, to a figure of nearly 1000 inmate
transports per day.

Louise Grant, VP of CCA stated that inmates will be transported by a private transport
company. Some of these inmates will be maximum security inmates. What type of
security will be used in these cases? Sheriff DeMeo uses SWAT teams for transport of
maximum security inmates. Do private transport companies have SWAT teams?

If inmate transport is minimum, say 5 inmates per day, and assuming that every inmate
will only make one trip, i.e., the inmate is innocent and let go in Las Vegas after just one
court appearance, it will take almost one year to process all 1500 inmates. One year’s
stay is a much longer stay than we have been being told.
These figures certainly do not compare to CCA’s estimates of no impact on transport, of
only one transport back and forth in a day, and that transport will not occur every day. If
that were true (1 inmate per day max), the detention facility would only process less than
60 inmates in 60 days, nowhere near the 1500 inmates they are telling us will be
processed through the system.

What’s wrong with CCA’s math and how long will these inmates really be in Pahrump?

All the best,

Pearl West
775.537.1135