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Kentucky Department of Corrections, as well as other state jailers. The major reports to the Chief of Staff, and is responsible for the security operations of the Main Jail Complex and the Hall of Justice, and also administratively oversees the sworn staff. Other responsibilities of the major include facilities maintenance, fire safety, transportation, and the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) and the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). Reporting to the major are six captains; three assigned to the MJC with one captain to each shift, as well as one captain assigned to the CCC facility, the Home Incarceration Program (HIP) and the Training Academy. Lieutenants provide shift supervision, with sergeants exercising supervisory authority over officers in specific sections of the facilities on their assigned shifts.
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