Ron Devere, the Madison County Jailer, gave the members of Kiwanis an overview of the Madison County Detention Center and its operation. He noted that the Detention Center was opened on January 1, 1990 after the county was ordered by the state to close the 150 year-old Madison County Jail. He said there were 68 prisoners in 1990 and the number has now grown to 107 average daily population. He said the annual budget is $1,250,000 with a set aside of $100,000 each year. He added that only once in six years has he had to dip into that $100,000 and that was for $25,000 to provide some physical repairs.

He noted that there are 30 employees with inmates doing a good bit of the work of cooking and cleaning in the detention center. He added that eleven inmates go to to work on the city and county street crews, clean school buses, do maintenance work on the Valley View Ferry, and do landscaping. He said prisoners earn $1.25 per day for that outside work. He added that prisoners are maintained on an average funding of $27 per day per prisoner. This includes food, shelter, medical coverage, exercise programs and educational programs. He noted that some are given work release and some educational release to attend school but only at the direction of judges

George Robbins, the Madison County attorney, addressed the Richmond Kiwanis Club on the role of the county attorney on February 5. Robbins, an EKU and Chase Law School graduate said his office deals with 16,000 cases with 20,000 to 30,000 charges per year. He said his office collects more than $3 million in child support payments each year. Robbins added that his office's role in collecting delinquent property taxes and in recovering money for local merchants for cold checks are primary means of paying for the four part-time assistant attorneys, two part-time paralegals, one secretary and several cooperative education students from EKU each year.

Mark Calitri presents a check for $500 to Club Treasurer Brenda Blankenship. This was the club's share for selling programs during the week-long "All A Classic" basketball tournament held at the Alumni Coliseum on the Eastern Kentucky University campus. This is both a community service as part of an effort to attract people to Richmond for the tourney and is a fund raiser that helps fund many of Kiwanis' charitable activities.