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| OpEd: Fiscal jail break? |
| By Rome News-Tribune |
| Published: 02/06/2008 |
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GEORGIA - It's not in the governor’s proposed budget, but the Georgia Senate plainly believes that it should be — and it’s right. The senators unanimously approved a measure that would raise the daily reimbursement for a state prisoner being held in a local jail pending transfer to a jam-full Georgia prison to $30 a day. This has long been a gripe of local sheriffs statewide, including our own. The “official” per diem is $7.50 for each prisoner although the Department of Corrections has for some years been paying $20 a day. Even that doesn’t come close to covering the actual costs — $35 a day, the last time we heard a Floyd County sheriff use a number although many elsewhere are pegging it at $50 a day. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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