Associated Press
NEWPORT, Ky. — Campbell County officials say a planned jail expansion will include a substance abuse program intended to help curb the county’s heroin problem.
The northern Kentucky county expects to seek bids by the end of April on the estimated $7 million project at the Campbell County Detention Center
Reconstruction is expected to take 18 months, and Jailer Jim Daley says he hopes to have a substance abuse program operating when the space opens, likely around January 2017.
The expansion will add 104 beds in three pods as well as 32 isolation beds, a control area, training room and multipurpose room for programs including substance abuse treatment.
Daley says the jail needs space because it is continuously over its capacity of 425 regular jail beds.