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| New Law Will Help County Jails |
| By kaaltv.com |
| Published: 06/25/2009 |
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New Law Will Help County Jails (ABC 6 NEWS)--- A change in state law will save Minnesota county jails a lot of money. Six years ago a change in Minnesota law sent short-term inmates from state prisons into county jails, but the state did not give them the proper funds to house them. This new law could change that. Olmsted County prisoners are there for many different reasons. "Second or third time DUI offenders, to drug offenses to burglary, theft, assaults, even up to murder," Detention Sergeant Wooner. Over the last few years inmate numbers have been on the rise. "You get more tension you've got detainees. You've got less space, you can feel they feel overcrowded, getting frustrated." When the law changed in 2003 and sent short-term prisoners to county jails, the state only sent about 9 dollars a day to pay for inmates that cost 118 dollars a day to house. Since then county jails have been calling for a repeal of the law. "It was simply a tax burden shift from the state to the county, local taxpayers," said Sacy Sinner the Olmsted County Jail Director. And this year, it happened, the Minnesota Legislature repealed the law, which means the short-term inmates won't be sent here.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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