Grove City Messenger - August 7th, 2022

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The Franklin County Commissioners and Sheriff
dedicated the new James A. Karnes Corrections
Center at 2551 Fisher Road on the westside. The new
facility is scheduled to open later this year and will
replace the county’s downtown jail, which was built in
the 1960s. It provides 864 beds, and a second phase of
the new jail will open next year with an additional 426
beds.
“This jail is a legacy project and one that will serve
our community for many years to come,” said board of
commissioners president, Erica Crawley. “And the way
that it can do that most effectively is by providing
mental health services, job training and other educational
programing so that our neighbors in the jail are
able to find success when they become our neighbors
outside of the jail.”
The county team responsible for planning to replace
the county’s jail facilities partnered with the National
Institute of Corrections and traveled the nation to visit
the country’s most progressive and successful jails.
The James A. Karnes Corrections Center combines all
the best features in use around the country including
mental health and detoxification centers, accommodations
for virtual visitation, natural lighting for both
inmates and deputies, and training and programming
space to help prepare inmates for their return to the
community.
“If you want to know how a community regards its
people, you don’t have to look any farther than its jail,”
said commissioner John O’Grady. “And with the new
James A. Karnes Corrections Center, we’ve finally got
a jail facility that’s worthy of our community and its
residents.”
The new facility is designed to accommodate a new
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New jail dedicated to Sheriff Karnes
A dive into oceans of possibility
Messenger photo by Dedra Cordle
As residents of Galloway, Erin Heintz and her two children
do not often get to see animals that are found living
within a Tide Pool, but the family from the westside
were recently able to get up close and personal with
quite a few of them courtesy of the Southwest Public
Libraries. On July 27, the Grove City Library and the
Westland Area Library welcomed conservationists
and animal ambassadors at the Newport Aquarium in
Newport, Kentucky as they wrapped up their oceanthemed
Summer Reading Challenge. “We wanted to
bring programs that were fun and educational for the
entire family and having representatives with the
Newport Aquarium come here to present always delivers
on both of those fronts,” said Jane Barnhart, the
youth services team lead at the Westland Area Library.
For close to an hour, Newport Aquarium conservation
educators Daphne Schaaf and Jordan Zulli spoke to a
crowd of more than 100 children and adults about the
amazing animals found within Tide Pools, how they
survive and adapt to their changing and hostile environments,
and then supervised as the attendees got
to touch hermit crabs, fighting conchs, sea urchins
and a lively horseshoe crab named Mushroom. Shown
here getting to touch a lively horseshoe crab is Erin
Heintz and her children Evelyn, 4, and William, 6.
Heintz said not only did her family have a great time
learning about these fascinating animals, but they
also had a great time participating in the Summer
Reading Challenge that ran from June 4 through July
31. “That is always a fun time for us,” she said.
model of corrections focused on Strategic Inmate
Management and Direct Supervision. It’s a model in
which deputies share space in pods with the incarcerated
persons they’re supervising. Each pod has built-in
rooms for medical checks or other professional visitation
and its own area for recreation. The space will
allow for increase programing, training, and education
to prepare the inmates for success when they return to
the community, and the updated philosophy has been
shown to make jails safer for both inmates and staff.
“It’s not just a jail, it’s an investment in rehabilitation,”
said commissioner Kevin Boyce. “Bettering this
infrastructure first helps support those in a crisis situation,
it then reduces recidivism and generates positive
long-term outcomes.”
Jim Karnes was the longest-serving sheriff of
Franklin County, capping off a 48-year career in law
enforcement. Karnes first joined the sheriff’s office as
a deputy in the corrections division in 1963, and served
as sheriff from 1992 until his death in 2011.
“We know that today’s inmate is tomorrow’s neighbor,”
said Sheriff Dallas Baldwin. “The vast majority of
people who enter our doors will leave the facility in a
few days. The sheriff’s office is committed to helping
those individuals start down a better path in the sincere
hope they won’t come back to jail.”
The James A. Karnes Corrections Center encompasses
nearly 430,000 square feet and cost about $360
million to build. The facility includes enough concrete
to build a sidewalk from Columbus to Dayton, more
than two miles of plumbing, and its roof covers approximately
four acres.
To learn more about Franklin County’s jail facilities,
visit sheriff.franklincountyohio.gov.