Jail and community corrections expansion plans changing

County corrections will add areas for addiction programs, and a new building next to the jail will house administrative positions.

For the jail and community corrections.

As we reported last january, a study was done to see which facility needed an expansion.

The jail would have cost about 32-million dollars.

Community corrections would have been 8 to 9 million.

Instead, both facilities are adding new spaces for 16-million dollars.

County corrections will add areas for addiction programs. a new building next to the jail will house administrative positions.

That opens space for programs to help inmates stay out of jail.

Sheriff bob goldsmith says it's a better solution than adding beds.

Warehousing people doesn't work.

So, if we could get some programs in there to help people have a better foundation when they come out, maybe that will be best.

Not only for them, but for the community.

If approved by the county council, construction would start early this summer.

It would wrap up in january of next year.

The tippecanoe county health department is taking steps to