Polk County leadership is considering spending $7,971,058 on a facility to can 74 people at a time. It’s a shame. People are a terrible thing to waste. But since that’s the way we do things in this country, it is not recommended that the facility be two stories. Architect Jason Hopkins told the county commissioners:
They don’t typically recommend two-story jail facilities because what ends up happening is the offices are located on the main floor and the inmates are housed upstairs, and inmates figure out how to flood below and cause damage . . .
