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| No clear plan for downtown jail |
| By news-gazette.com |
| Published: 04/08/2014 |
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CHAMPAIGN — After more than 10 years of debate and studies of the defects of the downtown Champaign County jail, county officials still have no clear plan to replace it. As recently as 2012, the rundown jail cells, a lack of storage space and structural and design problems led Sheriff Dan Walsh to propose a rapid plan of action to Champaign county board members: Close the downtown jail and focus on expanding the satellite jail, at 502 S. Lierman Ave., U. Yet, two years after the proposal, not much has changed, and the conditions of the jails are still unsatisfactory. No blueprints for the proposed project exist, and no estimates in regard to the costs of the project have been calculated, Walsh said. Read More. |
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