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The county previously estimated a 400-bed facility would cost around $75 million, Cockerill said. Last year the current jail had an average population of 160 inmates. The current jail's capacity ...
Monroe County workers' income tax is going up come Jan. 1 to help pay for a new jail that will likely be built on the North Park property along Ind. 46 between Bloomington and Ellettsville.
Traffic passes by North Park on Ind. 46, an area the Monroe County commissioners are exploring for a new county jail, on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
In a cooperative agreement between the Monroe County Correctional Center and the Monroe County Public Library, Jail Library Services have been offered since 1986. Each month, the Jail Library is visited by about 200 inmates and circulates over 1,000 books. Each inmate has access to library service about once every three weeks. [6]
The ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit 15 years ago but put it on hold as long as county officials were making progress toward a new jail. Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane a llane@heraldt.com or 812 ...
Monroe County Council members Kate Wiltz and Peter Iversen and Monroe County Commissioner Julie Thomas attempt to sort jail inmates during an exercise at a joint meeting on July 11, 2024.
Jerod Draper was a 40-year old American father from Georgetown, Indiana who died in custody of Harrison County Jail in 2018. [1] [2] Draper had ingested methamphetamine prior to his arrest for fleeing a traffic stop. [1] While incarcerated, Draper began showing symptoms of a methamphetamine overdose. [3]
Two Monroe County Commissioners who are running for re-election said they deserve another term because they have been moving the county forward on housing, the jail and the convention center with ...