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As deadline approaches for action on downtown jail, Champaign County faces funding and activists as roadblocks

By Casandra Purcell/For CU-CitizenAccess.org | November 16, 2017

With a U.S. Department of Justice-imposed deadline approaching, Champaign County officials have increasing pressure on them to either renovate or close the 37-year-old jail in downtown Urbana.

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