Monroe County sheriff stresses new jail’s functional capacity, not bed count, wants end to ‘tag, you’re it’

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Monroe County sheriff stresses new jail’s functional capacity, not bed count, wants end to ‘tag, you’re it’

Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté wants county councilors and county commissioners to start thinking about the size of a planned new jail in terms of its functional capacity, instead of its raw bed count. Marté also wants the county executive and fiscal bodies to attach more urgency to the planned new jail project. Those were the two big takeaways from Marté’s presentation to county councilor’s and county commissioners on Thursday afternoon. Abo…