Need for new jail is unavoidable

By Bill Elfo Whatcom County Sheriff Over the past 20 years, multiple citizen panels, task forces, engineers, professional jail planners and the U.S. Department of Justice have stressed the urgent need to replace the Whatcom County Jail. These bodies, individuals and firms identified the frequent failure, unreliability and in some cases complete absence of critical…

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