Officials in Stark County broke ground in Canton on an addition to the county jail Friday morning, intended to house more people in better conditions.
The current jail has linear housing pods with cells lined along long hallways. That’s dangerous for both the people who are incarcerated at the jail and for the corrections officers, Stark County Sheriff Eric Weisburn said.
“Our current jail has served us for decades,” he said, “but parts of it date back to the 1960s.”…