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When Dane County officials agreed to spend a record amount of money to build a new jail, a main goal was to close part of the existing jail that Sheriff Kalvin Barrett says is so bad it’s “borderline unconstitutional.”
But Barrett now says his office won’t close those “disgusting” floors of the jail in the City-County Building as planned…