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| Costly improvements needed for Becker Co. Jail |
| By valleynewslive.com |
| Published: 03/25/2014 |
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The Becker County Jail was built 35 years ago with the intention the facility would last 25 years. Recent inspections are showing that 10 extra years of hard time has taken its toll on the aging building. "They did one in January and then they came back in February, I believe," says the county's Sheriff Kelly Shannon. After the inspections, the Department of Corrections recommended a new lock system- not for keeping prisoners in, but actually, to let them out. Right now if there needed to be a safety evacuation, staff would have to manually unlock all the cell pods. The Department of Corrections is asking is that the electronic unlocking controls outside all the pods are operational, too. Read More. |
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