Council Claims New Kansas City Temp Jail Looks Too Rough

Ideally . . . Jails aren't built for aesthetics and, within reason, there should be a punitive aspect to a stay in lockup . . . Meanwhile, this newspaper quote mostly makes our 12th & Oak betters seem ridiculous . . . 

"At first glance, some City Council members drew parallels between ICE facilities or warehouses and the city’s own, new $25 million temporary city jail now under construction in the East Bottoms."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

KC officials worry: City's new temporary jail 'looks like an ICE detention center'

Weeks after Kansas City publicly pushed back against the possibility of turning a local warehouse into a federal immigration jail, city officials are looking more critically at their own jail project.

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