6/14/18 – 10:53 A.M.

A grant could help Hancock County address its jail overcrowding problem. Cayla Fortman is with the Hancock County ADAMHS board, and says a $50,000 innovation fund grant would help provide ways to keep people out of jail…

Audio: Cayla Fortman

Fortman tells the county commissioners the grant could help provide a coordinator to find better ways to use existing resources…

Audio: Cayla Fortman

Fortman says the plan would look at who ends up in jail the most and find ways to divert them before they end up behind bars.

Fortman adds they’ve seen similar programs get results in Washington State…

Audio: Cayla Fortman

She says other communities have used the technical assistance to create better treatment programs for people before they end up in jail.

The program wouldn’t need any funding from the county. Fortman says they’ll know if they get the grant in September.