The Blount County Adult Detention Facility had an average daily count of 394 inmates in 2007, up from 347 in 2006. Inmates housed at the Blount County Adult Detention Facility are from every corner of the state. Blount County contracts with the Tennessee Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals Service to house their prisoners. The facility also houses prisoners from agencies outside of Blount County.

Commissaries
Tennessee Business Enterprises, in conjunction with Aramark Inmate Services, holds the contract for the commissary Service.

Work Release/Work Detail
The Litter Crew Program continues to pick up trash along Blount County’s roadways. In the calendar year 2007, inmates covered 748.1 miles of roadway, picked up 263,144 pounds of trash, 2,913 which was recyclable. They worked a total of 207 days.

CTO Program
All new corrections officers must complete the Correctional Training Program, which is eight weeks long. This program is a standardized course that ensures that officers receive equal training.

Food and Laundry Service
The detention facility has a commercial grade kitchen that provides approximately 447,720 meals a year to adult and juvenile inmates. Food service has three full-time employees. The kitchen supervisor also oversees the laundry service, which is operated by inmates.

Medical Care
The medical staff in the detention facility consists of six medical professionals, including a Medical Unit Supervisor, , two LPN’s, a parademic, an EMT, and a CNA. In addition, a medical doctor is on call 24 hours a day.

CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team)
CERT is a special unit of the Corrections Division. The team consists of full-time corrections officers who use less lethal methods of control. They deal with high risk situations in the detention facility. CERT handles crowd control, riot conditions, and security extractions of violent inmates. The team also executes high security shakedowns to search the detention facility for
contraband.