Renderings for the behavioral health and medical wing at the Montgomery County Jail show the new men’s detox unit. | Photo Credit: Montgomery County, Levin Porter Architects, HDR
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Late last month, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Annette Chambers-Smith announced that the state will award more than $24 million in grants to support construction and renovation projects at three jails across the state.
According to a release from Gov. DeWine’s office, the funding will be awarded through the Ohio Jail Safety and Security Program, which helps local communities fund improvements at functionally obsolete and structurally failing jails. Since being launched by Governor DeWine in partnership with the Ohio General Assembly in 2021, the program has supplied more than $230 million in funding for nearly 70 jail projects statewide, including 25 new or renovated jails and over three dozen jail security and life-safety projects…