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| Jail crowding suit possible |
| By The Morning Call |
| Published: 02/15/2008 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - With a major prison expansion looking more likely, the Bucks County commissioners instructed their attorneys Thursday to explore suing the state over the cost of housing so-called state-sentenced inmates they say are clogging the county lockup. Under state law, prisoners sentenced to terms of less than two years must serve their time in county jail. Those sentenced to five or more years must be sent to state prison. But county judges have discretion to allow inmates whose sentences are between two and five years -- enough to land them in state prison -- to do their time in county prison. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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