Mobile County plans to spend $15 million upgrading Metro Jail’s mental health and medical facilities, part of a broader effort to resolve a 14-year-old Department of Justice investigation.
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Mobile Judge Says the ‘Revolving Jailhouse Door’ Is No Simple Matter
Mobile County District Judge Michael E. McMaken pushed back on criticism of a ‘revolving jailhouse door,’ arguing that preset bonds, jail overcrowding and shrinking court budgets were bound together in ways the public rarely saw.
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Sheriff Sam Cochran Made a Crowded Metro Jail His First Order of Business
Mobile County’s sheriff told a civic club he had cut the jail population by hundreds, won a raise for corrections officers and put technology at the center of his department, saving taxpayers millions.