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Article: KENTON COUNTY OPENS NEW JAIL WING.(NEWS)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2000
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The fifth floor of the Kenton County Municipal Building in downtown Covington once housed offices and courtrooms for circuit judges.
But now, after a $170,000 renovation and nine months of work, the place where local inmates used to receive their sentences will, instead, house convicts.
As a stopgap measure while plans for a new jail are being made, a new wing of the Kenton County Jail opened Wednesday. It will house 60 non-violent inmates being transferred from the top three floors of the county building to the fifth floor, where judicial benches and jury seats have been replaced with bunks and monitoring cameras.
The fifth-floor judicial ...