Criminal Justice
Grant County To Keep Troubled Jail Open
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Grant county officials have decided to keep its troubled jail open, abandoning a months-old plan to shutter the facility.
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Grant county officials have decided to keep its troubled jail open, abandoning a months-old plan to shutter the facility.
A new state audit found careless handling of tens of thousands of dollars, sloppy record-keeping and other issues at the Grant County Detention Center. Auditor Adam Edelen’s office is forwarding its findings to the Kentucky attorney general for “further investigation.”
Claims of sexual assault, harassment, molestation and more. Alleged lies, cover-ups. Meet the elected jailer who pulled in $88,000-a-year under the gaze of local, state and federal officials.
As government officials watched, Grant County jail inmates died needlessly and were raped, abused and neglected. Lax security, flawed medical care, inadequate training and other administrative failures flourished. And there’s no end in sight.