The incoming president of Jacksonville City Council says said one of his main priorities will be building a new jail and moving it away from its current home on East Bay Street Downtown.

In an interview on This Week In Jacksonville, Ron Salem said the jail is over 30 years old and not in good condition.

“I’ll be setting up a process where we can have that public discussion involving the public defender, the courts, the state attorney, the clerk of the court, bringing all the people together and trying to figure out where we move it, what services are provided, mental health, health care, etc. in order to we can begin the process of hopefully building a new jail at some point in the future,” Salem said.

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