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Kandiyohi County considers accepting more state prisoners for up to $1.2M in revenue
By wctrib.com- Carolyn Lange
Published: 06/19/2014

WILLMAR –– Kandiyohi County could get up to $1.2 million in revenue in the next year by housing more prisoners from the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

The county already boards 40 DOC prisoners but in order to house the 20 additional prisoners the state would like to send here, the county would have to reopen a closed section of the jail and hire four more employees.

If the economics make sense, the action will likely be approved but Sheriff Dan Hartog told the County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday that “we’re going to chew on that a little bit.”

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