To the editor,
Re: Jail receives redevelopment permit, Sept. 1.
Seriously? $167 million to update a facility whose “residents” are there because they have been convicted of crimes and deemed a risk to the general population? They are there as a punishment for not following the rules of society.
I’m all for rehabilitation but a knoll, recreation facilities and views of the lake seem a little much. Not much of a deterrent for being a criminal, is it?
Darrin Gilmore, Cedar
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