The city council committee tasked with looking into the conditions of the jail released a draft report of their findings from a seven-month-long investigation.
found the jail faces unsafe conditions, including overcrowding, mold and mildew issues. The report called the jail"outdated" and"compromised the well-being of inmates and JSO staff."
"There's no doubt that we need a new jail over the course of the past three or four decades, three plus decades. Since this thing was built and designed, the culture of incarceration, detention has changed dramatically. And one size does not fit all anymore," Boylan explained.
"We took a look at our given situation, saw some of the best practices out there, got some of the great minds people experienced in building these kinds of facilities at the table to help us understand not only what's happening around the country in these kinds of facilities, but more importantly the process by which they came to where they did and what they decided to build,” Boylan said.
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