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| Counties protest inmate transfer plan |
| By ksnt.com- Katya Leick |
| Published: 11/04/2015 |
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GEARY COUNTY (KSNT) – On any given day as many as 160 inmates can be found inside the Geary County Jail and it often hits that maximum number. Now, the county is being told it may have to find room for state prison inmates. “To me it’s an unfunded mandate from the state for them to save money in the department of corrections, by pushing it back off on the counties,” says Sheriff Tony Wolf, reacting to news the state may have to send inmates from state prisons to county jails while Kansas expands the maximum-security prison outside of El Dorado. The expansion is needed because the state will be room by the middle of 2018. One concern is where they’ll house all of these inmates. “At times we are at capacity or beyond, already. So adding more people would compound that problem,” says Mark Anderson, jail administrator. Read More. |
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