Building the big house
In case you missed it, a group of consultants on Tuesday gave Guilford County commissioners some long-term ideas for relieving the chronic overcrowding in the county’s two jails.
They laid out four options for the commissioners to consider, available here (Sorry for the smudging on the first page. I made some notes and had a little adventure with the white-out). The report is a bit text-heavy, but if you spend some time with it you'll get a good idea of the choices facing the board in the coming months.
The options basically boil down to building a new jail and/or expanding the existing jails in Greensboro and High Point. There's also a good chance that the board could mix and match some of these ideas when they make a decision. Any new facility wouldn't open until 2009, at the earliest.
Note that no price tags are attached to any of the proposals. Those numbers will be revealed in October when the group issues its final report.