Therapeutic Inmate Management (TIM) Unit

Sunday, May 21, 2023

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Location: 203

Presenter(s)

Timothy Ragan, yes

Captain
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Ventura, California

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Additional Presenter(s)

Ciara Hays, Yes

Deputy
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Ventura, California
Krysta Carpio

Deputy Sheriff
Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Nicole Gorenflo

Deputy Sheriff
Ventura County Sheriff's Office

The Therapeutic Inmate Management Unit, or TIM Unit as its more commonly referred to, was developed due to a growing need to provide a more consistent level of supervision and human interaction among our psychiatric inmate population at the Ventura County Main Jail.

Learning Objectives:

The TIM Unit also recognized the need to develop an incentive-based program. As part of this program, each inmate’s activities were tracked and documented.
positive outcomes for our psychiatric population, which we had never seen before. This classification now has the willingness and desire to improve their overall hygiene, cooperatively take medications, and socialize.
We have seen a higher level of education and institutional knowledge among our personnel as it pertains to caring for individuals who suffer from mental illness.
The TIM Unit can be replicated throughout other jail facilities in a similar fashion to benefit your agency. This was done by reallocating deputies.
Early on the challenges were explored and goals were set; find ways to maximize time spent outside of their cells, encourage social interaction, and provide protective measures of this classification.