Story by Rodger Nichols for the Gorge News Center
Klickitat County Jail Administrator Bill Frantz shared a tribute to people we don’t often pay attention to at yesterday’s county commission meeting:
“In 1984, President Reagan declared the first week of May National Corrections Officers Week. In 1996, Congress amended that to Correctional Worker Week, where we acknowledge all the correctional workers and all the hard work that they do, so I want to just begin by thanking the men and women who worked so hard for the Klickitat County Jail. They’re an amazing great group of people to work with.”
And he said the department was adding a sadly needed device.
“We are working on installing a Narcan vending machine in our jail lobby. This would be a service for families who might be picking somebody up, or a person chooses to take it on the way out. A large portion of the people that we deal with are co-dependent on alcohol and drugs and opiods.”
He said his department was waiting for monitoring equipment to be installed that could potentially save someone who had thoughts of harming themselves.