January 17, 200718 yr City, county to announce new jail BY KIMBALL PERRY | AND DAN KLEPAL January 17, 2007 CINCINNATI - Elected officials from Hamilton County and the city of Cincinnati will announce at a 1:45 p.m. press conference that they plan to built a temporary jail. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEWS01/301170029
January 18, 200718 yr City, county pursue temporary jail BY DAN KLEPAL | [email protected] January 17, 2007 CINCINNATI - Commit a crime in Hamilton County, and there might soon be a bed waiting for you right here. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/NEWS01/301170042
January 18, 200718 yr Sheriff Leis pokes hole in 'bubble' jail JOE WESSELS / CINCINNATI POST January 18, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis said he will support a temporary jail - but only if it's made from bricks and mortar, not flimsier material commonly used in non-permanent lockups. Click on link for article. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070118/NEWS01/701180364
January 18, 200718 yr "Only if it's bricks and mortar," the sheriff said as he left City Council's Law and Public Safety Committee when asked the type of structure in which he would be willing to house prisoners. So then its a permanent structure you want...I don't understand this guy. First he asks the County Commisioners to approve money to sue themselves...then he says he supports a temp. jail, but only if it is 'bricks and mortar'. :wtf:
January 18, 200718 yr Hamilton County now wants to talk to Warren County about sharing new jail By Tiffany Y. Latta Staff Writer Wednesday, January 17, 2007 LEBANON — Officials in Warren and Hamilton counties again want to discuss the possibility of building a regional jail. Warren County Commissioner Pat South said Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune asked to resume talks about ways they can cooperate to help ease overcrowding at their county jails. Click on link for article. http://www.journal-news.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/17/hjn011807jail.html
January 26, 200718 yr Something that wasn't posted...The taxpayers have to pay for Leis' lawsuit against the county commissioners. We vote down a tax on a new jail, but we have to fund a lawsuit for said jail. Unbelievable. Cincinnati Enquirer: County to fund Leis' jail suit (12/30/06) From the 1/24/07 Enquirer: Commissioners set hearing on sales-tax hike for jail BY KIMBALL PERRY | [email protected] Hamilton County's commissioners plan today to begin the process that could place a sales-tax increase on the ballot to pay for a new jail. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/NEWS01/701240357/1056/COL02
January 26, 200718 yr Man, I didn't know you could go against a public vote like this!! If thats the case why didn't they simply implement the light rail tax after it was defeated (by about the same margin). Oh but they could have held some public mtgs to let the public fume over what was going on...either way we would have light rail well under way! I guess popular votes mean nothing!!! Now knowing this I would also like Bush removed from office immediately...even though he was elected in, why can't we just decide inside government what is really best??!!?!?
January 26, 200718 yr ^change one word, different law. As I understand it the vote was not actually necessary, it is in the commissioners discretion to increases taxes by a certain percent.
January 29, 200718 yr Thank goodness someone actually thinking about a real answer to this overcrowding issue, rather than just creating more beds! County: New jail is not enough BY HOWARD WILKINSON | [email protected] January 29, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Commission president Todd Portune wants a commission vote by Feb. 23 on a criminal justice plan that goes well beyond just building a new jail and may or may not include a sales tax increase to pay for it. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070129/NEWS01/301290032
February 2, 200718 yr County has new jail site Camp Washington open to possibility BY CLIFF RADEL | [email protected] February 2, 2007 MAP: Proposed Site Location Cincinnati Enquirer PHOTO: The old Kahn's factory on Spring Grove Avenue in Camp Washington is the preferred location for the new Hamilton County jail. The Enquirer / Leigh Taylor CAMP WASHINGTON - The preferred location for a new Hamilton County jail is the former Kahn's plant in Camp Washington. Todd Portune, president of the Hamilton County commission, and Hamilton County Sheriff Simon L. Leis Jr. have confirmed the county's preference. So far, nobody objects - not even neighbors. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWS01/702020408/1077/COL02
February 2, 200718 yr This almost sounds too good to be true. A location has been selected, location is not too far from the court house, neighbors are not holding a protest over it, and the land is to be donated for this purpose. It will be interesting to see how this works out over the next few weeks.
February 2, 200718 yr Just thought I would include a map that is useful and that someone can relate to...unlike the Enquirer's map. I believe these are the property boundaries (outlined in red) for the Sara Lee property (correct me if I'm wrong). So here is my version, that shows you some context and the current jail that sits just a couple blocks away:
February 6, 200718 yr Meeting seeks jail feedback CINCINNATI ENQUIRER February 6, 2007 CINCINNATI - To obtain public feedback on the proposed site for the new Hamilton County jail - the shuttered Kahn's meatpacking plant on Spring Grove Avenue - the Hamilton County commissioners and City Council's Law and Public Safety committee plan a joint public hearing at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Camp Washington Recreation Center, 1201 Stock St. At the hearing, city and county officials will explain how they chose the Camp Washington site. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070206/NEWS01/702060417/1056/COL02
February 14, 200718 yr Hamilton County takes another look at sales tax hike for jail Cincinnati Business Courier - 3:26 PM EST Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Most Emailed Hamilton County voters might be asked to approve a two-step sales tax plan to fund construction of a new jail. Click on link for article. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/02/12/daily29.html
February 21, 200718 yr Could hotel tax fund new jail? BY HOWARD WILKINSON | [email protected] February 20, 2007 CINCINNATI - Millions in excess dollars from the motel-hotel tax could be used for jail expansion instead of asking Hamilton County voters to approve another sales tax increase, Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine and Cincinnati Councilman Chris Monzel said Tuesday. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070220/NEWS01/302200074
March 5, 200718 yr Jail vote may be in August BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] March5, 2007 CINCINNATI - Commissioner Todd Portune this morning said he wants to hold a special election Aug. 28 for a tax levy to build a new jail. It would require a change in state law to do so, something he says legislators are ready to pursue. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070305/NEWS01/303050025
March 7, 200718 yr Special election for jail would cost $1M, commissioner says BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] March 7, 2007 CINCINNATI - It would cost taxpayers more than $1 million to hold a special election on a sales tax to fund construction of a new jail, Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine said Tuesday. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS01/703070413/1056/COL02
March 8, 200718 yr Releases predicted if no jail progress BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] March 8, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hundreds of Hamilton County inmates could be out on the streets before fall if headway isn't made soon in plans to alleviate jail overcrowding, according to one county commissioner. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070308/NEWS01/703080411/1056/COL02
March 19, 200718 yr DeWine: Sell Drake, fairgrounds for jail BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] March 19, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine this morning presented a plan that he said would ease jail overcrowding without raising taxes. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070319/NEWS01/303190045
March 19, 200718 yr That $500,000 per day figure must be a typo...because they only had $7 million earmarked for the entire 2006 year. The numbers don't add up. If they were to spend $7million for one year that would be about $19,000 per day...which in turn is about $64 per day, for each inmate. $500,000 per day is an extremely outrageous number...it simply cannot be true!
March 19, 200718 yr Dewine said "It costs about $57.00 a bed night to operate our own jail spaces. We are renting spaces in Butler County for about $55.00 a bed night." here: http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php/content/comments/costly_august_special_election_is_the_wrong_way_to_fund_jail_expansion/
March 20, 200718 yr Leis, DeWine tangle over jail BY JOE WESSELS | CINCINNATI POST March 20, 2007 CINCINNATI - When it comes to the question of how to fund a new Hamilton County jail, Sheriff Simon Leis is finding more in common with the two Democrats on the County Commission than with his fellow Republican, Pat DeWine. "Absolutely, it's no question," Leis said Monday. "They have sense. DeWine doesn't have any sense." Click on link for article. http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/NEWS01/703200370
March 28, 200718 yr Commissioners OK land gift for jail March 28, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Commissioners have cleared the way for the former Kahn's plant in Camp Washington to become the site of a new jail. Click on link for article. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/03/26/daily34.html
March 30, 200718 yr Jail Tax Redux Democrats won't take 'No' for an answer BY KEVIN OSBORNE | [email protected] CINCINNATI - For the second time in less than a year, Hamilton County voters this summer likely will be asked to increase the county's sales tax to pay for a new jail, but supporters say that's all the latest proposal shares in common with a plan resoundingly rejected last November. Click on link for article. http://www.citybeat.com/current/news.shtml
March 31, 200718 yr Lease renewal for Queensgate jail likely BY DAN MONK | [email protected] March 30, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Commissioner David Pepper called the county's Queensgate jail "a disaster" after touring the facility March 23. The roof leaks. Mold and open wires line the walls. "It really is not a safe place for these guards," Pepper said. "It's just a massive hazard." Click on link for article. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/04/02/tidbits1.html
April 2, 200718 yr Jail issues divide commission County leaders bicker over funding methods, long-term plans BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] April 2, 2007 VIDEO: Commissioners Rift CINCINNATI - This was supposed to be a new era. When Democrat David Pepper joined the Hamilton County Commission this year, giving the board its first Democratic majority in decades, things were expected to change - less squabbling, getting more done. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/NEWS01/704020390/1077/COL02
April 19, 200718 yr From the 4/12/07 Enquirer: Early vote on new jail is unlikely Area legislators divided on special election BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] Plans for an August election to raise Hamilton County's sales tax might hit a dead end - in Columbus. Several Republican legislators say they would not support the special election, an Enquirer survey found. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070412/NEWS01/704120408/
April 26, 200718 yr New safety plan would boost tax BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] April 25, 2007 CINCINNATI - A new sales tax proposal to build a new jail and fund related programs would cost shoppers more and last five years longer than a jail-only tax proposal that voters defeated in November. Click on link for article. http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/[/i]
May 5, 200718 yr ^"Some aspects of the new proposal were revealed Wednesday by Pepper and Commissioner Todd Portune. More details will be given during public hearings May 16 and May 23. Locations will be announced." Anybody know where these hearings will be ?
May 8, 200718 yr Lease renewed on jail May 8, 2007 | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER QUEENSGATE - Hamilton County commissioners approved a two-year, $2.2 million lease Monday with Corrections Corporation of America, which owns the aging Queensgate jail on Linn Street. The lease holds neither party responsible for anything above ongoing maintenance of the converted warehouse, which houses about 800 county inmates. Click on link for article.
May 10, 200718 yr County leaders offer up new $211M jail proposal Fifteen-year sales-tax hike would fund it BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] May 10, 2007 CINCINNATI - A comprehensive safety plan that is to be outlined today by Hamilton County Commissioners David Pepper and Todd Portune would allocate $211 million for building construction and another $22 million annually to run the jail and anti-crime programs. Click on link for article.
May 10, 200718 yr Wasn't the original estimates in the 40 mil range or am I getting my numbers and projects mixed up? I think asking for a tax increase is a little far fetched. Most people believe a jail is needed but are still feeling burned over the stadiums. I believe those feelings are still pretty strong within the city. Good Luck, but I would start looking into a alternate plan that may include liquidating some real estate that the city and county may have in its possession that is not viable. Maybe start pushing harder for a casino!! Let's take this to C-bus or Washington!! Ideas anyone? I think they need to stay away from the tax issue. Raising taxes will not help in the decreasing population department anyway.
May 11, 200718 yr Voted or not, county counting on higher tax Two of three commissioners say there's no alternative to funding new jail BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] May 11, 2007 QUEENSGATE - One way or another, shoppers in Hamilton County will likely be paying more in sales tax by the end of the year to fund a new criminal justice plan. Click on link for article.
May 14, 200718 yr Hearing times & locs Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Bond Hill Recreation Center 1501 Elizabeth Place Cincinnati, Ohio 45237 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Sharonville Convention Center 11355 Chester Rd Cincinnati, Ohio 45246
May 16, 200718 yr Raise taxes for jail? Speak out tonight May 16, 2007 | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER CINCINNATI - Speak out tonight on the plan by Hamilton County Commissioners to raise the sales to pay for a new jail and other anti-crime programs. Click on link for article.
May 16, 200718 yr I can't believe that people are actually jailed for these things!!! "Big Ten": open flasks, sitting, "Dumpster diving," spitting, public urination, littering, loitering, panhandling, trespassing and disorderly conduct Jailing of homeless is decried BY JOE WESSELS | CINCINNATI POST May 16, 2007 CINCINNATI - If homeless people in Cincinnati were not arrested for the "Big Ten" reasons, Hamilton County probably would not need a new jail, homeless advocates say. Click on link for article.
May 17, 200718 yr Forum airs opposition to jail tax BY JESSICA BROWN | [email protected] May 17, 2007 BOND HILL - A proposed public safety plan that would include a new jail in Hamilton County drew criticism from several people at a public hearing Wednesday. Click on link for article.
May 24, 200718 yr No vote on sales tax County leaders could enact increase themselves BY JESSICA BROWN | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER May 24, 2007 SHARONVILLE - Hamilton County voters won't be asked in August to approve a sales tax increase to fund a safety plan that includes construction of a new jail. Click on link for article.
May 24, 200718 yr ^ Memo to County Commissioners: A new jail is an obvious need. Enact the sales tax hike. If you don't, we are going to be voting on this every year until it is passed. Lets eliminate the pain and suffering by enacting the tax.
May 24, 200718 yr ^You may very well be right...but I think it's political suicide to go ahead and enact a tax that clearly doesn't have the people's support. It's a tough situation. Oh and welcome to the forum!
May 24, 200718 yr I think it's political suicide to go ahead and enact a tax that clearly doesn't have the people's support. This is true. They must feel very seriously about this if they are willing to risk re-election.
May 24, 200718 yr ^ Portune and Pepper are very popular in this community. I would be shocked if that would kill their political careers.
May 24, 200718 yr especially because the jail did well in the suburban republican communities. It would win them votes out in the suburbs and I doubt it would loose them votes in the city because who else are they going to vote for?
May 24, 200718 yr especially because the jail did well in the suburban republican communities. It would win them votes out in the suburbs and I doubt it would loose them votes in the city because who else are they going to vote for? Thats a good point...I wish them all the luck, but typically this would be a comparable move to taking funding away from police or firefighters. I honestly don't care either way, but I just don't want it to become the mess that followed the PBS/GABP debacles.
May 25, 200718 yr Actually, what is needed more than a new jail is a giant bomb that you could drop on a city and the contents of the bomb would then seek out hard-core criminals and gang-bangers and evaporate them. No destruction and no mess. Kind of like chemical warfare on criminals. :-D :clap: :drunk:
May 25, 200718 yr Jail Tax Almost Certain With or without a vote, Hamilton County commissioners likely to act BY KEVIN OSBORNE | CITY BEAT PHOTO: Michael Earl Patton says one reason the jail appears overcrowded is because we jail so many nonviolent offenders. Photo By Mark Bealer PHOTO: Molly Lyons, a caseworker for the chronically homeless, talks about the "criminalization of homelessness" and its role in jail overcrowding. Photo By Graham Lienhart CINCINNATI - One way or another, people in Hamilton County probably will begin paying more in sales tax within the next few months to help build a new jail and overhaul the county's criminal justice system. Click on link for article.
May 25, 200718 yr Actually, what is needed more than a new jail is a giant bomb that you could drop on a city and the contents of the bomb would then seek out hard-core criminals and gang-bangers and evaporate them. No destruction and no mess. Kind of like chemical warfare on criminals. :-D :clap: :drunk: I think that violates several constitutional provisions and the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendments.
May 29, 200718 yr Will sales tax get hiked tomorrow? BY JESSICA BROWN | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER May 29, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County shoppers should learn tomorrow whether the county’s sales tax will go up to pay for a new county jail and related anti-crime programs. And Hamilton County voters will learn whether they’ll be allowed to vote on it. Click on link for article.
May 30, 200718 yr Pols raise sales tax to 7% BY JESSICA BROWN | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER May 30, 2007 CINCINNATI - Hamilton County Commissioners today voted to enact a county sales tax increase -- without putting it on the ballot. Click on link for article.
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