Jasper County Citizens First

Monday 4-16-18 there were 285 inmates in the Jasper County jail, Tuesday 4-17-18 there were 289 inmates in the Jasper County jail, Wednesday 4-18-18 there were 285 inmates, and Thursday 4-19-18 there were 269 inmates in the Jasper County jail.   I understand if your opinion is "so what's the problem, they wouldn't be there if they did nothing wrong".  OK, there are at least 100 more human beings in jail than the jail was built to hold.   Do you "Back the Blue"?   That is almost 2 X's the capacity of the jail.  Their budget can only handle a certain number of employees who are now at twice the risk of something happening to them trying to guard, feed, transport to court 2 X's the capacity of the jail , and make sure that those 2 to 3 inmates per cell get along with each other so a riot is not started and, God forbid, someone dies while in custody.   And more than likely they don't get paid $20.00 per hour, more like maybe $12.50. Think ...

Monday 4-9-18 the Jasper County jail count was 266 inmates.   That is 86 more human beings than the jail was intended to hold.   I think Mr. Bartosh, a few judges,   the prosecutor, and various and sundry office staff need to rethink things cause something definitely isn't working. My very first blog 12-29-17 was centered around Moses Ramsey and Artilius Jordan and guess who made the righthand column on the front page of the Joplin Globe Friday 4-6-18 - CORRECT - Moses Ramsey and Artilius Jordan - charged with the shooting death of Sean Harris. So Moses Ramsey's charges were dropped  (yes, you read that right), and he will testify against Jordan.   Ramsey is no stranger to problems with the law, with charges of Possession of Controlled Substances and Domestic Assault.  I've read the article in the Globe several times and it really does play like something out of the movies.   Two  guys are headed for Oklahoma on Christmas Eve and s...