criminal justice

The Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office has not yet filed charges against anyone arrested during Gaza solidarity protests at Indiana University’s Dunn Meadow.

State law requires such a study be done before a new jail can be built, according to the county’s legal department.

The roughly three-dozen bullet point list is the culmination of the group’s work since early June.

The group drafting financial recommendations for a new jail in Monroe County says the facility likely won’t be built or occupied until 2027 at the earliest.

Monroe County officials seem to agree that the jail should be built at the county-owned property on Bloomington’s southwest side.

The sheriff’s office wants the county council to invest in staffing and treatment programs at the current jail.

The sheriff said his office wants to leave a positive first impression. That’s how it decided on the one word contained in the mural: Hope.

The county says it has not chosen a site yet but is getting closer.

The local NAACP branch says Black people are being jailed at disproportionately higher rates in Monroe County now more than ever before.

The Open Door Law states that government agencies must hold publicly accessible and noticed meetings when the majority of a governing body is present. But the committee meetings were neither noticed nor open to the public.