LETTER TO THE EDITOR 2

Five days in our new jail changed my view of who should be sheriffTo the Editor,I recently spent five days in a holding cell at Sullivan County's new jail. What I experienced during those five days is why I will not be voting for Jason Bobbitt for Sullivan County Sheriff.Let me start with the condition of the facility. I expected a new jail to be clean and properly maintained. Instead, I found a dirty bed, dried food splattered on the wall, and a toilet that looked as though it had not been cleaned in a very long time.I shouldn't have had to use my only towel to wipe down the walls and bed just to make the space tolerable. But that's exactly what I did.I was a Boy Scout growing up, and one thing that stuck with me was the principle of leaving things better than you found them. So I cleaned what I could, even though keeping that cell clean should never have been my responsibility in the first place.This is our new jail.

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