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| County jail at lowest occupancy ever |
| By altustimes.com- Jason Angus |
| Published: 06/04/2014 |
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Jackson County Jail now has its lowest prisoner occupancy ever, housing only 77 inmates, Sheriff Roger LeVick reported during the Jackson County Commissioner’s end of the month meeting on Friday, May 30. Because the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ new efforts to process offenders at the DOC Assessment and Reception Center in Lexington within 7 days of sentencing, wait times for inmate transfers are significantly shorter. As a result, county jails are coming up short in their budgets. “They have basically pulled everybody that was waiting to go,” LeVick said of the DOC in an interview. LeVick said the facility needs to hold 35 to 40 prisoners waiting to be transferred to the DOC at any given time to maintain operations. Currently the jail has only three prisoners waiting be transported to Lexington. LeVick also said that the State could save tax payers by utilizing county jails. “We house them considerably cheaper at $27 a day. The Department of Corrections houses them at $38.25 a day.” Read More. |
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