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Troup County officials weigh hiring county mental-health liaison for jail
Summary
Chief Whitney told commissioners the jail houses roughly 625 people and that 25–26% likely have mental-health needs; he proposed a county-employed liaison modeled on Muskogee County's program to connect detainees with courts and community providers and reduce repeat bookings.
Chief Whitney told the Troup County Board of Commissioners at a work session that the county jail is serving as a de facto intake point for people with mental-health needs and proposed creating a county-employed mental-health liaison to work inside the facility and coordinate with community providers and probate court.
Whitney said the jail population totals about 625 people, including roughly 580 in the lockdown facility, and that on paper about 60 detainees are diagnosed with mental-health…
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