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| SWAR sheriff says state inmates costing county jails too much |
| By ksla.com |
| Published: 06/12/2014 |
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HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, AR (KSLA) - The Arkansas Sheriff's Association wants something done about counties having to house state inmates. Currently the counties are receiving just over $28 a day per inmate but the association said that is not enough. At the Hempstead County Detention Center in Hope, AR, more than 50 percent of inmates in a 100- bed facility are prisoners for the state's department of corrections, according to Sheriff James Singleton. "They are kind of using us I think as a prison when we are not designed to be a prison. We are designed to be a county jail," he said. Read More. |
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