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Laundry
 The Laundry Section is responsible for maintaining laundries at the 1200 Baker Street, 1307 Baker Street and 701 N. San Jacinto Street jail facilities. There are Laundry personnel on duty twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Laundry personnel also staff the receiving docks at 1200 and 1307 Baker Street. The Section is comprised of one first line supervisor (sergeant) and twenty-one deputies/jailers.
The Laundry Section is responsible for the collection, laundering and distribution of over 4 million pounds of inmate uniforms, linens and blankets per year. In addition, the laundry is the distribution point for numerous products used by Inmate Housing (toilet paper, paper towels, mops, brooms, disinfectant, bath soap, etc.). The laundry also supplies linen and cleaning products as needed by the outlying jails.
 Some items utilized by the Laundry are purchased through TDCJ (uniforms, towel rolls, bar soap, mattresses). Some items are purchased via established County contracts (paper products for example). The balance of the items are bought through competitive bid (blankets, sheets and wash cloths for example).
 Using female inmate workers from the New Choices Substance Abuse Program and seven sewing machines the Laundry repairs inmate uniforms and manufactures its’ own towels for inmate use. Towel stock is bought in rolls, cut to length, and the inmates sew the edges. The towels are subsequently distributed throughout the jail system.
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