prompted the lockdown of Pitkin County’s administrative offices for two days last week. Pitkin County District Judge Chris Seldin said he had no option but to set bond for Andrew Johnston — rather than release him from custody — due to his failure to honor a previous court order forbidding his contact with another person. Seldin said Johnston might benefit greater from mental health treatment instead of jail time during the duration of his cases. Yet that was not an alternative for Seldin in the case against Johnston, who has not been clinically diagnosed with any mental health issues. “But society does not provide me with that option,” Seldin said. “Instead, it provides me with the option of either incarcerating Mr. Johnston, and these jails are tasked with the difficult job of trying not only to serve as a correctional facility, but also as a mental health treatment facility.”