Eau Claire Jail Index:
The most expensive building project in Eau Claire history!

Citizen Referendum Advisory Committee Panel Discussions

The Citizen Advisory Referendum Committee has cancelled the Wednesday evening presentation at First Congregational Church . By request, future dates may be scheduled in other areas of the county to continue to help the public be aware of issues surrounding the Advisory Referendum on the County's future Jail and Justice Center location.

A full video of the March 14th - Sunday presentation will be played on Community Television with times and dates posted at: http://www.cvctv.org/12.htm and portions of the presentation will be made available on YouTube.

For updated information on this important issue
please visit www.EauClaireJail.com

Thank You

You showed the county that we will not stand by and let our river front and our downtown be compromised. Because of you we now have the chance for meaningful input working with the county to find the proper size and place for a new jail. We will have to watch carefully how the proposed committee is stacked, but we will have input. No doubt this will involve studying the National Institute of Corrections documents as well as evaluating the current use of our jail. With some study, it is possible we will find that we can make adequate space for those we need to incarcerate, offer alternatives for those who require less resources, and perhaps even rethink the 'business as usual' approach to incarceration (as suggested by the NIC report on the Eau Claire jail.)

Jail Project: Back to Drawing Board

The County Board had created a special committee to look for alternative locations for a new jail. Even though one committee member suggested that there was no need to look for alternative locations, and that they should just go ahead and approve the same riverfront location, cooler heads prevailed. They are now at least going through the motions of looking at alternative locations.

Read the Leader Telegrams Post Mortem on the Riverfront Jail. despite the terrible and ill advised editorials in the Leader Telegrams about the jail project, they do seem to report the fact correctly most of the time.

News from Round One:

County's Rezoning Application:

Application to rezone the river view property. (Abandoned)

 

CAJE: Regional Jail Review:

Review - A collaborative effort outlining some of the reasons the majority of Eau Claire citizens are opposed to the proposed jail location and question the need to continue outmoded forms of expensive punishment given real rehabilitation options.

Cover Page - Briefly states some of the reasons for opposition and provides a list of the collaborators that worked on & agree to the findings of the Regional Jail Review

Maps

UWEC Department of Geography & Anthropology - Map analysis of the location of the proposed Eau Claire County Regional Jail in relation to National Institute of Correction's Design Guide Study Recommendations

National Institute of Corrections:

Eau Claire County Justice System Report - Strait from the horse's mouth.
Report Highlights - A citizen review giving the report highlights.
Jail Design Guide (PDF) - Department of Justice tells where a jail should and should not be located.

Video:

Watch Jail Presentations
Raising Awareness

Audio:

The West Side

Other:

Footprint - How big is this thing going to be?
Site Plan - From the County
Letters from concerned citizens

 

CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS

See Also: CAJE Blog