From Yahoo News:
Jul. 15—On Friday, local officials broke ground on a new alternative sentencing facility coming to Boulder County. The facility, set to replace halfway houses and accommodate work release convicts, will not be the only construction on Airport Road, with the jail's plans to add a new booking room and additional upstairs space in 2025.
Boulder County Sheriff's Office Division Chief Jeff Goetz said the new booking room would address increased workflow and the new upstairs space would have 60 beds that could be used as a behavioral unit or intake. With the completion of the project expected to be a year and nine months out, Goetz said the plan for how to use the space may change over time but right now a behavioral unit is more likely.
"The jail population has changed dramatically and we're looking at utilizing that as a type of behavioral unit instead of new intakes," Goetz said. "So those that are trying to improve so they don't come back to jail or take a lot longer to come back to jail if they do so, that area would be designed and run through our mental health unit and our classifications teams to try and help that population." Continue reading >>>
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