“It was my understanding that due to staffing they had to close the booking area,” said Dennis Folk, president of the King County Corrections Guild. “They didn’t have enough people to safely operate it.”
Lauren Donovan, KIRO 7 NewsKING COUNTY, Wash. — With the closure of the Regional Justice Center in Kent, King County is down to just one place to book people, the jail in Seattle. On Sunday night, that critical facility shut down without notice.
“It was my understanding that due to staffing they had to close the booking area,” said Folk. “They didn’t have enough people to safely operate it.”
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