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| Plan ahead for inmates |
| By gazette.net |
| Published: 10/14/2009 |
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A slow but steady rise in the jail population has county officials considering whether they will need to expand the correctional facility in Clarksburg, which opened in March 2003. Arthur Wallenstein, director of the county Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, told a County Council committee last week the county needs to start planning how it will meet the expected growth in its prison population. Council members had asked Wallenstein for an update on the inmate population given recent county and state funding reductions to his department. Since the beginning of the year, the number of inmates in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Clarksburg has fluctuated little, between 700 and 744 inmates. Warden Robert Green told the council's Public Safety Committee on Thursday that the population was 743 that day. The jail's capacity is 1,028, but the actual number of usable beds is less, he said. Read More. |
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