Correctional healthcare built around the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center, whose capacity has shifted twice in the last fifteen years.
The Charleston County Sheriff's Office runs the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center out of a DHEC licensed infirmary built into the main building, after two capacity changes in the last fifteen years brought the rated count to 1,693. GENESYS would build a clinical program around that licensed infirmary, with physician oversight, chronic care management and documentation sized to a population that has already shifted once and can shift again.
GENESYS is physician-owned, led by a named medical director who is a Certified Correctional Health Professional and an NCCHC accreditation surveyor, with clinical protocols built around constitutional standards of care rather than minimum-cost staffing. Vacancies are covered through overtime, compliance pool nurses and contingency staffing so open shifts in a licensed infirmary are filled. Schedule an assessment and we will walk through a staffing plan for Charleston County.
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The Charleston County Sheriff's Office runs the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center at 3841 Leeds Avenue in North Charleston. A third expansion completed in May 2010 raised the facility's capacity to 1,917, and in 2020 the Sheriff's Office removed two modular units and the Work Camp, lowering the number by 224 to today's rated capacity of 1,693.
The main building includes a DHEC licensed infirmary and a medical department alongside its control center, kitchen and direct supervision housing units. A separate Juvenile Detention Facility, also run by the Sheriff's Office, sits nearby but off the main campus and is not part of the adult jail.
Charleston County has changed how many people the detention center can hold twice in the last fifteen years: up to 1,917 after the 2010 expansion, then down to 1,693 once the modular units and Work Camp came out of service in 2020. A staffing plan built around a fixed inmate count does not hold up well against that kind of change. A program sized to flex with capacity, not just the number on the day a contract was signed, fits a facility with this history better. That history also means a provider's staffing model and its contract terms both need room to move the next time the county changes how many beds are in service.
The detention center's medical department operates out of a DHEC licensed infirmary built into the main building. That licensing status means the clinical space itself answers to the state's health facility rules, in addition to the jail's own detention standards, so documentation and physician oversight have to satisfy two sets of requirements at once. A provider working inside a licensed infirmary, rather than a converted housing unit, is already set up to meet that higher bar, provided its own protocols are built around it from the start.
Capacity fell to 1,693 in 2020 when two modular units and the Work Camp were taken out of service.
The detention center's current rated capacity is 1,693. That reflects a 2020 reduction, when the Sheriff's Office removed two modular housing units and the Work Camp, lowering capacity by 224 from a 2010 high of 1,917.
Yes. A third expansion completed in May 2010 raised capacity to 1,917. In 2020 the Sheriff's Office took two modular units and the Work Camp out of service, bringing the current rated capacity down to 1,693.
Yes. The main building includes a DHEC licensed infirmary and a medical department, built in alongside the control center, kitchen and housing units rather than run out of a separate location.
No. The Sheriff's Office operates a separate Juvenile Detention Facility near, but off, the main detention center campus. It is a distinct building and is not part of the adult jail population or the capacity figures above.
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