North Carolina Corrections Secretary Alvin W. Keller, a Fayetteville resident, touted Gov. Bev Perdue’s plan to increase substance-abuse and mental-health counseling so prison funding could be decreased.
Cumberland County Commissioner Billy King rounded up some of the usual suspects Friday and brought them in for a talk about the county jail.
District Attorney Ed Grannis and Sheriff Moose Butler made their now-familiar arguments for a bigger jail – largely that criminals are being set free because the county has too few beds to house them.
