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| Ind. Neighbors Fear Flood of Hooligans from Proposed Inmate Processing Center |
| By Indianapolis Star |
| Published: 09/30/2002 |
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Mark Easley has few complaints about the more than 800 accused and convicted criminals who live down the block from his business. After all, they are safely locked up inside the Marion County Jail II. The inmates never leave unescorted and never get a chance to cause mischief at his family business, The Easley Winery. But he worries the county's plan to build a new inmate processing center next to the privately run jail will shatter the peace. That center will book all of the 170 people who get arrested each day in Marion County. Once processed -- often just hours after their arrests -- all but the most dangerous will be freed into Easley's neighborhood. 'It's not a great formula for redevelopment,' said Easley, president of the Cole-Noble Commercial Arts District. The city is spending $65,000 to study redevelopment options for the 24-block area surrounding the former site of Market Square Arena. That plan calls for more homes and businesses to be built near Jail II and the processing center. The City-County Council last week agreed to build the new processing center on one floor of a warehouse at 752 Market St. But critics such as the councilwoman who represents Easley's neighborhood vow to fight the project. Officials have yet to figure out how to pay for its roughly $12 million price tag. The Indianapolis Bond Bank is meeting on Oct. 7 to discuss funding for the project. 'It is the end of September, and I have some concerns about where they are going to sell this bond issue and what interest rate they are going to get,' City-County Councilwoman Jackie Nytes said. 'You can't build it if you don't have money.' Chief Deputy Mayor Michael O'Connor disagrees. The bond bank, O'Connor said, will issue anticipation notes to get the project rolling. 'We have been told over and over and over again by the sheriff, by the prosecutor and by most of the judges that the arrestee processing center is the key to stopping the release of prisoners,' he said, 'so we've moved forward in as expedited a fashion as possible.' The effort gained new urgency Tuesday when Marion County judges threatened to stop releasing prisoners, a move calculated to cost the county hefty fines or force officials to take other steps to solve a chronic jail-crowding problem. |
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