Garfield Heights residents who attended an Aug. 19 community meeting had mixed feelings about building a 1,904-bed jail on about 72 acres in their community. Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and Garfield Heights Mayor Matthew Burke addressed their concerns.
showed residents are uncertain about whether a jail would help or hurt their community.
and The Plain Dealer that the city’s elected officials support it. He also declined to say how the meeting, which he called “the largest turnout that I’ve experienced in many years,” will influence his future vote.He believes residents did too, in the form of answers to their questions.
“I have yet to find a county where they put a jail and it went down,” Burke said. “I think it would work out.”Paying for a new jail remains a chief concern, not just for Garfield Heights residents but all county taxpayers. “Some people come to the jail who have never seen any resources in the community,” prior to committing a crime, Ronayne responded. The jail could introduce them to those services to prevent them from reoffending later, he said.
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