Lawrence Journal-World 08-04-2014

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Where to put all the inmates?

‘It was time for someone to do local meat’

As Douglas County’s jail population grows, officials worry about mental health and gender overcapacity By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild

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BUTCHER VAUGHN GOOD CUTS MEATS, from chicken to duck, the old-fashioned way at Hank Charcuterie,1900 Massachusetts St., a new artisan butcher and sandwich shop. Good, a Lawrence native, has worked in restaurants here since high school.

Elevating protein, one liver at a time New Hank Charcuterie transforms the good, the bad and the ugly into the sublime.

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n a land where “processed meat” is synonymous with yellow plastic-clad bologna in a giant supermarket, the version at Hank Charcuterie may surprise. Lamb sausage, chorizo, duck liver pate, ham hock rillette and hand-cut bacon fill Hank’s meat counter. Each is processed by hand within eyeshot of the cash register, from butchering a whole animal to

packaging the products made from it — all of it. Former Pachamamas sous chef Vaughn Good opened Hank Charcuterie just over a week ago at 1900 Massachusetts St. Hank (that’s sausage-speak for a coil of casings) sells a few cuts of meat, such as lamb steaks, in addition to its pre-

pared items, but the charcuterie products make it different from a traditional butcher shop, Good said. He knows of just one other similar business in the region, the foodie-approved Local Pig Charcuterie in Kansas City, Mo.’s, East Bottoms.

Douglas County officials are considering ways to expand the county jail. “We are starting to see the numbers of inmates go up and their needs are changing, so we have started looking at what we need to do to improve our facility,” Sheriff Ken McGovern said. When the $22 milIt’s a strain lion, 196-bed facility opened in September on our staff 1999, officials thought because at that by 2010, based on inmate projections, an times we are expansion would be constantly needed. But for several watching and years, the inmate popmonitoring ulation lagged behind certain those projections. The total number of individuals.” bookings reached a high of 6,392 in 2006, then — Sheriff Ken McGovern fell to 5,297 in 2012. Now, however, the population is starting to increase again, especially within certain categories, which causes space management problems. For example, the building was originally designed to hold 24 female inmates at any one time. Total bookings in the jail were up to 5,997 in 2013. Of those booked last year, 1,644

Please see LIVER, page 2A

Please see INMATES, page 2A

Scaling Everest in a hospital stairwell RICK MCNABB, OF LAWRENCE, LEFT, CLIMBS STAIRS at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Friday while “coach” Jerry Waugh provides support and friendship. Four years ago, McNabb suffered an aneurysm that led to a stroke that left him paralyzed and without sensation on the left side of his body.

Lawrence man overcomes stroke step by step

Have some pie with your bacon After a delay, the Ladybird Diner downtown is expected to open its doors — and precious pie case — later Chad Lawhorn’s got the this month. scoop in Town Talk, 8A

By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce

Rick McNabb doesn’t want this story to be about him. He wants it to be about the therapists and volunteers who have helped him recover from a brain aneurysm and subsequent stroke. He wants it to be about the disadvantaged youths he works with at his basketball clinics in Lawrence. He wants it to be about the people who volunteer their time to help

him put on the camps. But when you’re climbing the height of Mount Everest over 100 days, four years after a stroke left you mostly

paralyzed on the left side of 54-year-old has been at your body, it’s hard not to Lawrence Memorial Hosbe the focus of attention. pital, climbing about 1,000 Almost every day for Please see EVEREST, page 2A the past several weeks, the

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