Verkkowhatcom county will build, own and operate the jail for an estimated 400 to 440 inmates.
It will be called the justice facility and behavioral health.
Verkkoanother factor that has affected the jail population is the large number of seriously mentally ill offenders who are booked on serious, violent, felony.
Verkkofentanyl overdose deaths are rising exponentially:
15 in whatcom in 2020 and 25 in 2021, according to a state department of health dashboard;
And at least 48 in 2022, county medical examiner allison hunt said on feb.
From 1970 to 2014, the incarceration rate in whatcom county—the number.
Verkkothe bellingham herald (bellingham, wash. ) (tns) may 23—a new whatcom county jail could cost between $137 million and $207 million, the county.