By C1 Staff
RIVERHEAD, NY — The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office took criminal justice students from Dowling College on a tour of Riverhead Jail Friday.
The sheriff’s office provides tours for over a thousand high school and college students each year through its popular Youth Enlightenment Seminar (YES) initiative, reports LongIsland.com.
“These tours give students a realistic view of corrections work and, from a different perspective, what daily life is like for an inmate at the county jail,” Sheriff Vincent DeMarco said. “You just can’t get this kind of understanding from a TV show or from reading a text book.”
The students toured the jail’s housing areas, the holding pen, internal intelligence operations, and its specialized units where correctional staff book and perform iris scans of incoming inmates.