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Faribault Co. taking prisoners
By fairmontsentinel.com- Jodelle Greiner
Published: 05/07/2014

BLUE EARTH - Faribault County is working with the Minnesota Department of Corrections to house prisoners due to get out soon.

"[State] prisons are becoming overfull and they're looking at the counties," Chief Deputy Scott Adams told county commissioners Tuesday. "It's just a way to empty out the prisons and get them in the workforce."

Adams said the prisoners must have a job set up in advance before they qualify to come to the county jail. And they need to be from a rural area.

"We want folks from this area, familiar to this area and who can integrate," Adams said.

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