Our elected leaders need to wake up

Dear Editor,

As you have read, the county is building a new jail, and the plan is to move the prisoners at the stockade and LEC to the jail when it opens in April.

The stockade prisoners are serving up to 90-day sentences, mostly for family court issues like failing to pay child support. A low-risk population. LEC prisoners are awaiting trial for things like too many unpaid tickets to murder. Some are high-risk.

I watched the video of the Aug. 27 county council meeting. Four pastors who work in the prison ministry requested the county move the chapel now

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