Mixed standard in jail reports?

There appears to be a mixed standard (or an unclear standard) for dates to be used in reports written by corrections officers at the McHenry County Jail.

In reading numerous reports contained in a 94-page report following an inmate's suicide in February, I noticed this discrepancy. On some reports the report date and time are given as the date of the incident.

In other reports the report date and time are given as of the writing of the report. This would seem to be the preferred procedure.

Obviously, corrections officers are not writing the reports as an event occurs. They've got their hands full dealing with whatever is happening. So reports will be written later.

Entering a correct date and time in the Date and Time fields on the report means that it is easy to determine just how much later the report is written.

In the case of the reports written four days after the inmate's suicide, the date and time of the report are correctly, truthfully and honestly entered. It might raise a question as to why the reports weren't written before four days had passed, but there will be an answer.

The McHenry County Jail should establish the "correct" procedure for entering Dates and Times in those fields at the top of reports.