Nailed to a door, in the oldest sense: commitments written so anyone can check whether they are kept. Each carries the measurement that would prove or disprove it. Where the Authority's records hold it, we print today's figure. Where they don't, that absence is the first thing owed.
01
Nobody earns being treated as a person. Conditions, food, hygiene, heat, contact with family: these are the floor, and a floor is not a privilege that can be revoked for behavior.
Measured by: published minimum standards for each of those conditions, and grievances about them reviewed rather than returned. Today 63.0% of grievances are closed without investigation.
02
Most people in this building have been convicted of nothing. Cash bail holds the poor and releases the same charge on the same day when the money is there. This thesis sits second, not eighth, because it is the most politically achievable place to start.
Measured by: median days from booking to release for pretrial holds, and the share of the population held on unsecured versus secured bond. Both come from the booking log field the Authority has twice refused to release.
03
Care inside should not be worse than care a mile away because the patient is in a jumpsuit. Continuity of existing prescriptions on intake. Treatment for withdrawal. A psychiatrist a person can actually see.
Measured by: uninterrupted program months and prescription continuity. The Authority's own statistics record zero substance-abuse group participants in 4 months of FY2026, in a year when 238–323 people a month were on psychotropic medication.
04
A jail that cannot keep people safe has failed at the only thing it claims to be for. That includes safety from the people paid to be there.
Measured by: assault and sexual-abuse allegation counts, substantiation rates, and outcomes, published quarterly. Today none of those are in the Board packet.
05
Isolation is not a housing assignment, it is an intervention with known psychiatric consequences, used most often on the people least equipped to survive it.
Measured by: days in restrictive housing by reason and by mental-health flag, and the count of people held there more than 15 consecutive days.
06
Every figure this jail generates about itself is a public record. The default should be publication, not a five-working-day clock and a fight over a column.
Measured by: FOIA response times, refusals with no Code citation, and whether the six inmate-and-family revenue lines totaling $2,262,599.53 appear in the Board's own summary. The docket is the scoreboard.
07
The answer to a full building is fewer people sent to it, not a larger one.
Measured by: community corrections caseload against jail population. In June 2026 those programs carried 1,856.75 people, 1.71× the jail's average daily population, while the FY’27 budget rose 8.889%.
08
Releasing someone at midnight with a paper bag and a bus schedule is a policy choice with a predictable result, and the result is another booking.
Measured by: identification documents, medication supply, and a housing plan at release; then return rates at 12 months, published.
09
Discipline that happens invisibly is indistinguishable from discipline that does not happen.
Measured by: substantiated complaint counts and their outcomes. FY2026: 179 grievances substantiated out of 1,915 filed, 28 appeals, 0 upheld, 28 overturned.
10
Once a public body has been told, in writing, on a date, with a document attached, inaction stops being ignorance and becomes a decision. Every records request, every public comment, every demand letter builds the notice record. This is why we file even when we expect silence.
Measured by: the notice record itself — dates asked, dates due, dates answered. That is the whole purpose of publishing the docket rather than describing it.
That is why we write letters with dates on them and publish the dates. Once the Board has been told, in writing, what its own reports say, inaction is not an oversight. It is a position. We are building the record that shows which.
And it applies to us too. We have been told what the numbers say. We do not get to stop.