Editor,

I’m pleased the Island County Sheriff’s Office’s outdated, haphazardly compiled policy and inappropriate, unjust methods of procedure exercised in your jail facility have at last had the light cast upon them. It’s been due for decades.

To Mr. Phil Stanley, the hired corrections consultant who released a report on the jail in October, I commend you on your ability to analyze/assess, your level of consideration, attention to detail, thoroughness, content and the presentation of your report. Magnificent. I aspire to work in a similar field as a consultant/legal advisor.

Most importantly, to Mr. Keaton Farris’ family and friends, my sympathy goes out to you. It amazes me that it took as long as it did, let alone another death in the jail (he was not the first) to gain some very deep, dark secrets the attention they deserve.

To the community, anyone who has not read the jail’s investigative report on Farris’ death and the report by Stanley, I strongly recommend you do so. Both are available to the public on the sheriff’s office website. Perhaps it can enlighten some of you to the fact that a lot of inmates who come out of that place deserved more credibility when they insisted the crime did not fit the punishment. Furthermore, I hope this incident invokes more public interest in the credibility of some of our public officials.

The moral of this entire disaster is preconceived notions are, for the most part, counter productive if not sometimes deadly. Keep an open mind. This world will see much more justice that way.

JADE CORNETT,

Clinton

former Island County jail inmate