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| Crow Wing County Board: DOC amends county jail contract |
| By brainerddispatch.com- Chelsey Perkins |
| Published: 11/04/2015 |
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The Minnesota Department of Corrections is now contractually obligated to offer Crow Wing County a 180-day written notice if it intends to terminate its agreement to house state prisoners. An amendment to the contract between the DOC and the county—which extended the notice from the original 30 days - was authorized by the county board last week on its consent agenda. The change comes as part of a push by the DOC to acquire additional beds for its prisoners in county jails, of which Crow Wing County has 60 to offer in its currently shuttered housing unit. In September, a memo penned by John King, assistant commissioner of the facilities division at the DOC, promised the county the lengthened notice period. At the time, however, it was unclear whether this would be committed in writing and was described by jail officials as an unwritten "personal guarantee." The memo appeared to offer Crow Wing County preferential treatment in another way as well—by promising its county jail would be the second-to-last facility prisoners would be pulled from, should circumstances require it, among the 18 county jails in use. Read More. |
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