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| Rensselaer County Jail expansion project |
| By Kaitlyn Ross |
| Published: 04/09/2009 |
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The Rensselaer County Jail will be able to nearly double its population with a new state mandated expansion. The construction, however, is being paid for strictly through local tax dollars. Our Kaitlyn Ross got a look at the $37 million project. TROY, N.Y. -- Rensselaer County Sheriff Jack Mahar said, "There's dangerous people, and dangerous people have to have a place to go, and that's the concept here." More than halfway complete, the jail expansion project is slated to wrap up this December. They're expanding kitchen facilities, the service area, updating locker rooms for corrections officers, and really ramping up the technology in the facility. Mahar said, "Each of the housing unit officers will be carrying a PDA that will allow them to control the cells, control all the cameras in the room, be able observe what the inmates are doing, why they're in other parts of the housing unit." Rensselaer County Jail expansion project underway The Rennselaer County Jail will be able to nearly double its population with a new state mandated expansion. The construction, however, is being paid for strictly through local tax dollars. Our Kaitlyn Ross got a look at the $37 million project. The jail is also streamlining the booking process and updating the general jail facilities. As the population continues to rise, Mahar said it's important to be ready for the influx of prisoners. Mahar said, "If they change the rules on the Rockefeller Drug Laws, for example, I think that will have a profound effect here on us in the county because what will happen is, those who aren't felons will be misdemeanors. A misdemeanor's punishable by coming to your local county jail." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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