I'm not sure why we are funding a $150,000 study. It doesn't appear as if it is information any of the stakeholders intend to rely upon.

@2: Not always. Folks who pass out in bars or in public and nobody knows what to do get taken to jail on a trespassing charge. Folks in a domestic violence dispute where facts are unclear to the police can end up in jail. There are additional examples.

Nice reporting, Ashley.

Hmm. Fentanyl use increases and deaths in the county jails increase... causation or correlation?

After our brilliant Silly Counsel experiment of "defund and debase the police"... golly its harder and harder to hire both police and jail personnel... causation or correlation? Got to go with direct correlation on that one!

Now that the political winds have shifted, we are prosecuting crimes again as opposed to letting them go free range all over the city, it appears we are going to need bigger jails, and we will need more jailers. Betting drop the study and just increase the budget.

......Or we could start to deal with the main underlying issue.... substance abuse and get these poor devils treatment.