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Becker County weighs options for aging jail
By wdaz.com- Nathan Bowe
Published: 03/25/2014

DETROIT LAKES -— First the good news: It isn’t going to cost Becker County half a million dollars to fix the electronic locks at its 48-bed jail here.

The state Department of Corrections, which recently finished its annual jail inspection, has decided that good old-fashioned keys will work just fine for now.

That gives the county board some breathing room to decide what to do about the jail, located above the sheriff’s department in the south wing of the courthouse. One option could be to partner on a jail with Clay County, which has been studying a new jail more than a decade.

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