One size fits all no longer fits.
If there's a message being sent by a study committee regarding the need for a new Oklahoma County jail, that is it.
•Tossing the mentally ill in jail because there's nowhere else to send them no longer fits.
•Locking low-level offenders up rather than sentencing them to community service no longer fits.
•A drug court that lacks sufficient capacity for treatment and oversight no longer fits.
•Living under the threat of federal intervention to set things straight no longer fits.
"We don't want business as usual," Stacey Trumbo, the county engineer and chairman of a committee that studied jail needs told Oklahoma County commissioners this week
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