New Jail, rinse, repeat

Editor:

We have been dealing with the seemingly non stop new jail conversation for some years now. Might I suggest part of the problem is the transperancy into our local legal issues or lack of over the years. We used to see regular police & courts that gave an insight into how many and why we might have an over crowding issue. But that got removed.

Frankly unless it was somethng fairly major, nearly aLL local crime goes unreported by the one and only local news. It is not uncommon for TV6 to be days ahead or even be the only report on a crime in Houghton county. If all I read was the Gazette I would have almost no idea of the vast majority of crime in our area and the issues with rampant drug use in some areas.

It was 20+ years ago when needles started turning

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