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An image from sheriff Ruben Marté's presentation to the Community Justice Response Committee on Jan. 23, 2023, shows a green substance coming from an air vent in the Monroe County Correctional Center. The county had initially considered an 87-acre parcel of land near Fullerton Pike on the southwest side of Bloomington as a site for a new jail, but the request to rezone the property was unanimously rejected by the city council in December 2022.