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| Cities Look for Ways to Get Free of Empty Jails |
| By online.wsj.com - Eliot Brown |
| Published: 10/15/2014 |
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Faced with projections of rising crime, residents here voted in 1996 to build a new jail to contain hundreds of future inmates. By the time the cavernous structure was completed in 2004, crime had fallen, leaving the city and neighboring towns that make up Multnomah County with an empty jail that cost more than $300,000 annually to maintain. Earlier this year, the county began trying to sell the 155,000-square-foot property, but thus far has received little interest from private developers. “We got stuck with the albatross,” said county spokesman David Austin. Multnomah’s experience highlights an awkward byproduct of the declining U.S. inmate population: empty or under-utilized prisons and jails that must be cared for but can’t be easily sold or repurposed. Read More. |
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