I will confess up front - I don’t know the deep background. Nevertheless, I was struck by a comment attributed to Fanny Lewis, Cleveland City Councilwoman, in today’s CPD article on locating the Myers U. fieldhouse. It seems that Myers U wants to locate its fieldhouse on the same piece of land that Lewis has been promoting for a jail to house nonviolent criminals. Ms. Lewis is quoted as saying, “We have more men in prison than we have in college so there’s a need.” This may, very unfortunately, be true; but aren’t we hearing from all sides that education, from pre-school on is a huge problem in Cleveland; that to compete locally, nationally and globally, we have to provide better education to everyone. If we want to reverse this proportion, shouldn’t we be favoring the school’s needs? The fieldhouse for a school should be as close as possible to the main campus. Cleveland does not lack for empty space. In seven years of searching for a place to build this type of jail in Cuyahoga County, is the location on Chester at 49th the only viable alternative?