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| Butte County Jail to house federal inmates |
| By Roger H. Aylworth |
| Published: 04/22/2009 |
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OROVILLE -- While the accommodations are rather less than five-star and the view is nothing to write home about, beds in Butte County Jail are about to become more sought-after as federal prisoners begin to take up residence. Tuesday, the Butte County Board of Supervisors approved a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service to house up to 144 federal prisoners each day in the county jail. Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff told the board his department was in line to suffer a $1.9 million budget cut for the coming year that would have forced him to slash 48 positions and shut down jail space that could house 240 inmates. While trying to overcome the fiscal challenge, Reniff discovered the U.S. Marshals Service was in dire need of additional inmate beds in Northern California. He said while the county jail can house up to 614 prisoners, the daily inmate census has been hovering around 450. The sheriff said the deal will bring $77.17 a day per prisoner. Reniff told the board he expects to have about 100 federal prisoners a day, which will bring in about $2.9 million a year. He explained the added prisoners will not require increased staffing in the jail. Besides erasing his department's budget woes, Reniff said the remaining $1 million would go into the county's General Fund, helping to reduce the $19 million deficit anticipated for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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