The new jail will also have a room to house up to six 309 inmates. The 309 program places well-behaved state inmates in county jails to serve as mechanics, tradesmen or general laborers.

The locked door's thick glass looks onto a busy emergency room hallway. Those who deteriorate enough to be deemed dangerous to themselves or others are sent down the road to jail.

RACINE - A Racine County Jail inmate bent his steel cell door enough to get out and trash the day room, jail staff said. The inmate - 41-year-old Sean Riker - is being held in the Racine County ...