Rock County Jail renovations increasing safety
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Construction at the Rock County Jail is starting to pay off. Sheriff Bob Spoden says they're now using a safer and more efficient receiving area. Kyle Geissler reports.
JANESVILLE — The Rock County Sheriff says renovations and a change in philosophy are the reasons the jail's booking area is safer then it used to be.
Bob Spoden says they want to give inmates an incentive to cooperate. Inmates who cooperate with jail staff now have access to a bathroom, telephone, and television in the new booking area.
The new booking area is part of renovations that started at the jail more than a year ago.
Spoden says the previous booking area was sometimes chaotic and lead to confrontations between inmates and between inmates and officers.
Renovation efforts are now focused on a new medical area for the jail.
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Nov 13, 2011 at 4:51 p.m.
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we got people out of work kids going hungry and homeless people and the state and city waste money on streets and builting a jail. think they should ask the people who vote for them how the money should be spend
Oct 24, 2011 at 2:51 p.m.
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Rewarding a criminal is criminal. Give them three squares, comfortable living, cable television, etc. and all you will get in return is repeat offenders. Making life cushy in jail just gives the criminal incentives to break the law more. Of course they try to get away with what ever law they are breaking. But if they get caught, it is no big deal to them because they are rewarded.
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