MADISON, Wis. — As he continues to push for movement on the Dane County Jail Consolidation Project, Sheriff Kalvin Barrett on Thursday took to social media to voice his frustration with project delays and show the conditions employees and residents in the current jail are experiencing.
The sheriff tweeted a photo early Thursday afternoon of a coffee pot filled with discolored reddish-orange water from the tap of a sink.
“Dane County Jail water…Demand better, we can do better,” he wrote, adding the hashtag “Humanity1st.”
Barrett has repeatedly called the existing facilities “inhumane,” unsafe and “borderline unconstitutional.”
Competing proposals about what to do with the jail have stretched out the project, adding additional costs to the final price tag.
Last month, Barrett and County Executive Parisi urged the county board to either approve the extra $13.5 million needed to keep the project on track or put the proposal to voters in the form of a referendum.
In August, the sheriff’s office closed a portion of the jail in the City-County Building, citing safety and staffing concerns.
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