By Gazette Staff - Dec 27th 2022
ROCK COUNTY
Billed as Rock County’s “largest construction project ever,” a three-year project to replace its jail and law enforcement facilities is underway near the intersection of highways 14 and 51.
A 200,000-square-foot, $96 million facility is the centerpiece, designed to solve problems that have arisen in recent years at the century-old Pinehurst Building. These problems include a leaky ceiling, basement floods, electrical equipment stored in “potentially unfavorable conditions,” and radios and stun guns being stored in a room susceptible to pooling of water, sheriff’s office Capt. Curt Fell said.
Other parts of the project will include more spaces dedicated to mental health issues, substance-abuse rehabilitation programs and indoor-outdoor spaces for more inmates to “get some fresh air,” Fell said. This will allow emergency responses to be more efficient. More on this work will appear in The Gazette on Thursday.
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