Item: Prisoner pleads for release: Jail protocol denies opportunity to attend mother's funeral/Aleccia Warren, CdA Press.

More Info: The commission did ask Kootenai County if it could spare any staff to accompany Cecil on the three-hour trip to the funeral, but the jail said no, Craven said. Lt. Kim Edmondson of the sheriff's department said none of the jail staff on Thursday could confirm that conversation with ICPP. But it isn't jail policy to have guards accompany inmates attending funerals, she said. "We don't typically provide private security, that's not the business that we're in," she said. Cecil's sister-in-law, Janice, said she's phoned every government entity she can think of to get him to the service.

Question: Should the sheriff's department make an exception in this case and find a way to get inmate Cecil Daniels to his mother's funeral?