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Sheriff alerts commissioners to mental-health bed backlog, asks to fund lieutenant with opioid settlement and reallocated SRO money
Summary
Sheriff reported inmates waiting long periods for mental-health beds and proposed converting savings from a removed SRO and opioid settlement monies to fund a patrol lieutenant; he also warned that the county's prisoner-boarding budget may be under-estimated.
Cole County's Sheriff told commissioners on Dec. 3 that long waits for mental-health placements are driving jail costs and placing strain on local budgets.
"I have 6 people, waiting to go to beds. One of them has been, like, 257 days," the Sheriff said, describing difficulty in placing detainees who require mental-health treatment. He warned that prisoner-boarding…
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