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Currently Reading More bodies in blue or fewer bodies in orange, says Bexar County Sheriff as he works to reduce jail staffing woes
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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar talks with the media in November 2019. Salazar is taking a multi-pronged approach to improving operations at the jail as he starts his second term by continuing to hire quality recruits, converting unused space to a separate but adjacent mental health facility for inmates with mental health issues and providing better pay and working conditions to keep detention officers from leaving.Marvin Pfeiffer /San Antonio Express-News
A section of Bexar County Jail’s South Tower could become a mental health facility with room to house and treat several hundred people who Sheriff Javier Salazar says should be patients, not inmates.