KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The city's a step closer to starting construction on a temporary or modular jail that's supposed to be open in seven months.

The permanent city jail that will go up off of 40 Highway next to Jackson County's new facility won't be open until 2029. Nearly everyone who spoke in person at Tuesday's Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee meeting was opposed to a funding ordinance for the temporary facility.

The modular or temporary jail would go up in the city's tow lot off of Front Street, east of I-435. It'd cost more than $20 million and have about 100 beds.

"If we're taking the emotions out of it... fiscally, it's not effective," independent filmmaker and resident Mikal Shapiro said in front of the committee Tuesday.

"Recidivism is just out of the roof, and

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