Officials make steps toward creating sobering center
Officials are working to make a sobering center a reality.
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Officials are working to make a sobering center a reality.
FORT SMITH -- The millions Arkansas received as part of a settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors could be key to establishing a place in Sebastian County to divert intoxicated people from the county jail.
FORT SMITH -- Stakeholders in the Sebastian County criminal justice system hope the federal government gives them money to establish a place for intoxicated people as an alternative to the county jail.
FORT SMITH -- Stakeholders in the Sebastian County criminal justice system hope the federal government gives them money to establish a place for intoxicated people as an alternative to the county jail.
FORT SMITH --The place used to keep mentally ill people out of jail has space to shelter intoxicated people, a Sebastian County panel learned Thursday.