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| Consultant: Too many inmates stay in St. Louis County jail too long |
| By duluthnewstribune.com - John Myers |
| Published: 02/20/2013 |
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MINNESOTA - Taxpayers across St. Louis County spent nearly $1.5 million last year to send local criminal suspects to other counties because the jail in Duluth was full. Over the past decade, that price tag hit more than $11.7 million — not including staff time and transportation costs for deputies to bring prisoners nearly every day to jails in Pine, Aitkin and Mille Lacs counties in Minnesota and Douglas County in Wisconsin. All those jails have extra beds and are eager to charge about $50 a day per inmate to take St. Louis County’s overload. The problem isn’t that the St. Louis County Jail in Duluth is too small, it’s that too many of the prisoners are staying too long, a consultant told county commissioners on Tuesday. Read More. |
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