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Navajo nation faces lack of jail space
By WJLA ABC News7
Published: 05/08/2007

CHINLE, AZ - With only about 80 jail beds on the sprawling 27,000-square-mile Navajo Nation, authorities increasingly face a quandary when they catch a suspect: Who should be locked up and who let go? The guy accused of beating up his wife? Of drunken driving? Of theft?

"What do you do when you don't have jail bed spaces? It's a revolving door, and it's going faster," said Dolores Greyeyes, director of the tribe's Department of Corrections. Read more.

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