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DEC L BOOK 8 ['AGE 569 Sheriff has from the standpoint that it is our jail and we pay the bills for it. We need the state to build some jails and stop passing the buck down to the counties. Commissioner Scurlock felt that we should take it one step even closer to home and challenge the administrative rules. He believed these rules are established in conjunction with the local sheriffs, and he felt that many of these rules have been an over reaction to a Supreme Court decision. Very few of these rules ever have been challenged, and it seems to him that there is a basic quality of life we have to provide for a prisoner, and it doesn't have to be luxurious or better quality or better food or more recreation, etc., than a normal citizen would have. Rather than suing the D.O.C. on a non-specific, he felt we should be more specific in regard to our own facility. Chairman Wheeler agreed, but stated that he would like to support the Sheriffs' Association in this. Commissioner Scurlock felt they are part of the problem. Commissioner Eggert commented that last month when she talked to Sheriff Dobeck, she was led to believe that they were going to challenge some of those administrative policies, and she was surprised that the suit was what it was. She stated that she also would like to know a lot more about this suit. Chairman Wheeler noted that he can get that information back next week, but he felt this is an opportunity for the counties across the state to let the state know that something has got to happen here. For one thing, when you are in the jail over here, you can go into the PX and the prisoners, because of the rules and regulations from D.O.C. can buy candy bars, etc., cheaper than the person on the street can buy these items. He believed that is ridiculous. Commissioner Scurlock continued to stress that we should challenge specific rules in our case as he believed there has been a general over reaction to the Supreme Court rules, and he 64