Help defeat the jail bond, again.

Johnson County is hurtling towards a nearly $100,000,000 investment in a brand-new, bigger jail. If approved, it will be one of the largest locally funded public investments in Johnson County in memory, yet there is still so much we don’t know – and still many unanswered questions – about the plan.

Johnson County deserves better.

Johnson County voters have routinely rejected building new, bigger jails — five times since 1976 — decisions that have saved us money both by avoiding the construction of a costly single-purpose building and by forcing our local criminal punishment infrastructure to find alternatives to expensive detention and incarceration.

This time, instead of engaging the broader community about what a solution should look like, the county has delivered a plan that is simply the Sheriff’s wishlist.

Help us defeat it again.

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