VIDEO – LESS RECIDIVISM –
June 20, 2025 – Kerr, an administrative captain who now runs the jail, began working there two decades ago. Now, jail officials give medication to help people with withdrawal and begin recovery. But that costs money.
“The medication-assisted treatment doesn’t work without the medication,” Kerr said
He tells me officials spent more than $100,000 on addiction medication last year. And he says prices continue to go up.
“We’re just doing a lot more than we used to do to try to help the people that are in here,” Kerr said.
