WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:41.5280000" NOTE recognizability:0.874 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.408 Chris, thank you very much new tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:02.410 --> 00:00:04.462 $2,000,000 headed to Lucas County to NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:04.462 --> 00:00:07.118 help build a new jail old jail site. NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.465 New jail proposed site over that way, NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:09.470 --> 00:00:11.030 and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:11.030 --> 00:00:12.980 making the announcement today saying NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:12.980 --> 00:00:14.773 the money also ensures that there NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:14.773 --> 00:00:16.850 will be an area for mental health NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:16.850 --> 00:00:18.535 services in the new facility. NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:18.540 --> 00:00:19.302 Kaylee Kirby. NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:19.302 --> 00:00:21.588 Joining us live downtown and kaylin NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:21.588 --> 00:00:23.662 let's talk a little bit about NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:23.662 --> 00:00:25.892 mental health and why it plays such NOTE Confidence: 0.89374775 00:00:25.892 --> 00:00:27.950 a big role in this new facility. NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:30.670 --> 00:00:32.902 Yeah Jeff, this may be one of the few NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:32.902 --> 00:00:34.742 times that we actually hear about NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:34.742 --> 00:00:37.140 mental health in terms of incarceration, NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:39.138 but this is something the sheriff NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:39.138 --> 00:00:41.390 says is important and plays a big NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:41.390 --> 00:00:43.100 role in making sure the inmates NOTE Confidence: 0.8853057 00:00:43.100 --> 00:00:46.160 get what they need and feel safe. NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:47.860 In the next two years, NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:47.860 --> 00:00:49.816 Sheriff Mike Navarre hopes to break NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:49.816 --> 00:00:52.599 ground on a new jail for Lucas County, NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.022 one that's up to date and functions NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:55.022 --> 00:00:57.347 how modern jails do, but also fills NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:57.347 --> 00:00:59.720 a void that he says is currently NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:00:59.720 --> 00:01:01.172 missing mental health treatment. NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:01.172 --> 00:01:03.350 We feel it's necessary to provide NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:03.409 --> 00:01:05.089 a safe environment for the inmates NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:05.089 --> 00:01:07.776 that are in that facility and for our NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:07.776 --> 00:01:08.870 correction officers. Congresswoman NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:08.870 --> 00:01:10.780 Marcy Kaptur helped to bring NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:10.780 --> 00:01:12.690 $2,000,000 in federal funding to NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:12.758 --> 00:01:14.714 the county to ensure there's a NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:14.714 --> 00:01:16.958 mental health wing in this new jail. NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:18.630 But the county is only NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:18.630 --> 00:01:19.966 in the beginning stages. NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:19.970 --> 00:01:21.640 What the Commissioner is called. NOTE Confidence: 0.86140144 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:23.638 The architecture and engineering phase of NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.836 the project designing that is so NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:25.836 --> 00:01:28.375 critical in making sure that we are NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:28.375 --> 00:01:30.379 providing state of the art services NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:32.506 for folks that are are picked up NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:32.506 --> 00:01:34.659 and and held in the jail pending NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:34.660 --> 00:01:36.520 their cases. The sheriff says NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:36.520 --> 00:01:38.380 having these services and treatment NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:38.446 --> 00:01:40.270 inside the jail is necessary to NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:40.270 --> 00:01:42.159 make sure inmates who do have NOTE Confidence: 0.868540500000001 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.007 mental illnesses are taken care of. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685405 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:45.735 If they feel safe they're NOTE Confidence: 0.8685405 00:01:45.735 --> 00:01:47.460 going to be more cooperative. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685405 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:49.296 They're going to take their medication. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685405 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:51.136 They're going to eat their meals. NOTE Confidence: 0.8685405 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:52.368 They're gonna go to NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:52.370 --> 00:01:53.288 the counseling sessions, NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:53.288 --> 00:01:54.206 but more importantly, NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:54.210 --> 00:01:55.908 Navarro says they are going to NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:55.908 --> 00:01:57.764 get better and maybe return to NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:57.764 --> 00:01:59.429 society as law abiding citizens. NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:01:59.430 --> 00:02:01.886 As for the location of the new jail, NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:01.890 --> 00:02:03.654 it's looking like it'll be built NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:03.654 --> 00:02:05.527 on the property where the health NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:05.527 --> 00:02:07.110 department is right now. I NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:07.110 --> 00:02:09.182 need to find some place that's functional NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:09.182 --> 00:02:11.375 for the health department to move to NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:11.375 --> 00:02:13.247 before we can demolish that building, NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:13.250 --> 00:02:16.007 but I I put it always almost 99% probability NOTE Confidence: 0.8689942 00:02:16.007 --> 00:02:18.156 that that's where it's going to be. NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:23.374 Now both the sheriff and Commissioners NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:23.374 --> 00:02:25.209 have said numerous times that NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:25.209 --> 00:02:26.997 the goal with building this new NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:26.997 --> 00:02:29.295 county jail is to make sure that NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:29.295 --> 00:02:30.965 it doesn't cost taxpayers anything NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:30.965 --> 00:02:32.990 more than what they already pay. NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:32.990 --> 00:02:35.342 This $2,000,000 ensures that and they are NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:35.342 --> 00:02:38.056 hoping to get more funding in the future. NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:39.750 Reporting live in downtown Toledo, NOTE Confidence: 0.87611365 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:41.525 Kaylee Kirby, WTO L 11.