Specifications include, but are not limited to: The scope of work for the Needs Assessment Study will include but not be limited to, the following items: 1. The consultant should examine the various factors contributing to the current correctional center population. This study should examine county population growth trends, crime trends, changes in laws, practices within the criminal justice system, including any that could contribute to racial disparity in the jail population and other factors that have or will affect the number of pretrial defendants and sentenced offenders who are detained in the correctional center and the lengths of their stays. 2. The consultant should perform a study of the inmate population, including demographics by race, ethnicity and gender, in order to describe the correctional center population and provide information useful for the planning of programs in our correctional center, for identifying the proportion of the inmate population that might be eligible for various alternatives to incarceration, and for developing design specifications about the types and number of spaces that will be needed to accommodate inmates in the County Correctional Facility
