Dear Editor,
During the previous eighteen months, I have observed a tremendous transformation within the Mason County Detention Center. The Kentucky Department of Corrections require an annual sixteen training hours per deputy, Jailer Kearn-Yeary has doubled that amount to forty hours annually. She has had an employee certified by the department of corrections to provide training.
Under her leadership, she has employed a medical company which provides service twelve hours daily, including the weekend; currently installing a new camera system, at no taxpayer expense, which will assist the staff, provide video in any prosecution and eliminate blind spots which plagued the old system. No cost to the taxpayer. New computers are being purchased with commissary funds and grants providing this revenue.
Ms. Kearn-Yeary has business acumen to utilize these available funds towards upgraded defensive tools and humane restraints for unruly inmates.
The interior of the facility has been cleaned and painted. A former kitchen advisor was employed who has saved money in food purchases and provide nutritious meals. A former retired policeman and deputy sheriff was employed who conducts investigations ultimately resulting in a safer place for staff and inmates. Contraband has also been curtailed by the investigators’s herculean efforts.
Ms. Kearn-Yeary cooperates with other correctional and law enforcement agencies. She is currently on the. Kentucky Jailers Association board of directors. She is a former probation and parole officer with 20 plus years of experience, with a bachelor and masters degree in criminal justice and corrections.
She has worked within the county government by providing inmate labor to the recycling center, trash collections, highway litter collection, custodian service for county buildings and established a female inmate work crew which has contributed tremendously to the beautification of the downtown area.
Her leadership characteristics include intelligence, honesty, calmness, tact, empathy, understanding and tackles any adversity with poise and quiet courage. She acknowledges subordinates’ abilities and job performance.
I know these qualities and attributes of Ms. Kearn-Yeary because I have had the privilege and the honor to work with this wonderful lady on a regular basis.
Please vote for Ms. Kearn-Yeary, the most qualified jailer of Mason County. Thank you.
Respectfully,
Gerald Curtis
Maysville, Ky
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