Cutting In Maine Jail Systems

In recent news Sheriff Glen Ross is showing concern with the recent Mental Health Bill. Sheriff Ross runs the Penobscot County Jail, and he sees these cost cuts affecting him and his jail.
The state of Maine is cutting back across the board for all systems, but should the jails be included in this big budget plan. Glen Ross states that it should be the last resort for the state of Maine, he states mostly on the fact of the high suicide rate that takes place in the prison. There are at least 100 people in Penobscot county that are put on suicide watch, many of them being in the prison. If this funding were to be cut, Sheriff Ross feels that his employees may be inadequate to run the jail.
When asked to edit this broadcast on channel 6 news, many different ideas came to mind. This includes content, the facts about suicide watches and its importance in the jail system. Or the mental health bill and the cutting of costs which our Governor just passed. How should we share this information with our viewers? What kind of verb usage gets our point across?
The news story primary focus is about the cuts that are going to be made in the jail, but does not really specify how much or what they are. The reporter just states that the cuts will happen, which makes the viewers have a false sense of the actually event.
The article also did a huge switch from the focus on budget cuts to the amount of people that have to be on a suicide watch list. This seemed primarily to give sympathy to the amount of work that the jail has. It was a good tactic, but it was such a large switch in the focus of the news air, that I felt like I was being tricked.
The usage of verb is mostly past tense as what has already happened, and then present to switch to what could happen. The reported did fine as to get his point across and did well in using the proper verbs for the actions.