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Advocates urge Wake County to rethink $172 million detention expansion, propose investing in pretrial services and data dashboards
Summary
At the Feb. 17 public comment period, Peter Van Dorsten of North Carolina Interfaith Cash Bail Reform urged commissioners to reconsider a roughly $172 million plan to expand the detention facility and to instead expand pretrial services, benchmark against peer counties and invest in data systems to better manage jail populations.
During the general public comment period at its Feb. 17 meeting, Peter Van Dorsten, director of the North Carolina Interfaith Cash Bail Reform, urged the Wake County Board of Commissioners to pause or reconsider a roughly $172 million budget proposal to reconfigure and expand the county detention facility over the next three years.
Van Dorsten told the board his group’s interest is reducing the number of low‑income people…
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