By Ida Lieszkovszky
Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty wants to reduce how long people are held in the crowded county jail and speed up the processing of felony cases.
McGinty is circulating a report he commissioned from the National Center for State Courts and the Pretrial Justice Institute that lays out several costly and time- consuming problems at Common Pleas Court, and recommends solutions.
It costs the Cuyahoga County jail about $85 per day to house an inmate, and there are a couple thousand inmates in jail at any given time. According to the prosecutor’s office, more than half of those inmates are waiting for their first court appearance.
Read the list of recommended reforms here.