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Article: PHILOSOPHICAL SPLIT ABIDES BEHIND BARS.(Crime)(As Springfield considers a jail, it looks at Cottage Grove's compared to the county's)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2004
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
COTTAGE GROVE - Inmates at the city jail here don't get to watch television. They don't have radio. The exercise program is simple: "You want to do some push-ups or jumping jacks in your cell, you can," Police Chief Mike Grover says.
Tucked away in the basement of City Hall, the jail's nine austere cells have stained concrete floors and cinder block walls painted institutional beige. Those without old-fashioned bars have solid steel doors, which swing closed with a claustrophobic thud. The only view some inmates get is of a metal toilet.
Bad-check writers, petty thieves and drunken brawlers get to ...