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| Balancing act: County seeks to keep jail population down while increasing revenue |
| By richmondregister.com - Sarah Hogsed |
| Published: 11/20/2012 |
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RICHMOND , KY— This fall, Madison County officials began discussing in earnest plans to expand the county jail by 50 to 100 beds. This is not a new topic to the fiscal court, however. In an April 2007 fiscal court meeting, Magistrate Larry Combs said building a new jail must be a top priority. “We’ve dodged the bullet too many times, and I feel it’s eventually going to catch up with us,” Combs said then. “It’s not fair to our jailer to ask him to keep 250 prisoners when we only have 180 or 190 beds.” With daily inmate numbers running around 260 or more a day, the county has lost thousands in revenue as the state Department of Corrections continues to pull prisoners from the facility every time it goes over 125 percent capacity, Jailer Doug Thomas reported recently. Read More. |
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