“We thought it was just maybe he, something with his back or something that could be cured, something that he could you know just nurse for a while and then he'd be OK . He could go back to work. So it's pretty devastating to get such a diagnosis as ALS,”
“Constructing a new jail with only 608 beds will handcuff our next sheriff and inevitably force the county board to ask the taxpayers for more jail money in the very near term. Using the hard-earned money of the taxpayers to move forward on yet another short-term fix that fails to resolve the long standing problem of overcrowding is unacceptable.”
