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| County jails backed up with state prisoners |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/20/2004 |
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The Alabama Department of Corrections says Alabama prisoners are beginning to back up in county jails again despite efforts to make room for them in state prisons. One solution being explored is to pay counties to keep them there, but some sheriffs want NO part of such an arrangement. D.O.C spokesman Brian Corbett says there now are 192 state inmates in county jails who should have been moved to state prisons. The state corrections department once had two-thousand-844 inmates in county jails past the allowed 30 days. Corbett says the state brought the backlog to zero and kept it there for about a year through expedited paroles and contracts with private prisons. The numbers began to rise again this fall after paroles leveled off and the state brought back inmates who had been shipped out of state. |
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