Cuyahoga County’s Justice Center needs work. The 50-year-old tower, as reporter Kaitlin Durbin writes, “has long been plagued by a leaking roof, unreliable elevators and outdated fixtures.”
Judges want to remain in the 26-story downtown building, with its expansive views of Lake Erie, rather than construct a new courthouse elsewhere. But they worry that county government will have no money for necessary improvements if it spends too much on a $1 billion jail.
County officials are rebutting complaints with a roughly $77 million tally of improvements they say have been made to the Justice Center and court facilities over the past decade…