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| Overcrowding not a problem for Noble County Jail |
| By wane.com- Sara Wagner |
| Published: 02/04/2016 |
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NOBLE COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – When Noble County built a new jail nearly 20 years ago, leaders made it four times the size of the old facility to deal with overcrowding. Now, it’s only about half-full. It can house up to 263 inmates in four different cell blocks, but its numbers the last few years haven’t come close to that. “The last year, we’ve been in the hundreds, low hundreds, right around a hundred. The year before that, we were probably about 150 maybe for an average daily,” Noble County Sheriff Doug Harp said. Harp said inmates average around a 26-day stay in the facility. Last July, Indiana implemented new sentencing guidelines in part to help reduce the prison population. Harp said that change paired with a revamp of community corrections led to the drop in numbers. “There’s a lot of other programs that are going in our community that have kept people out of jail,” Harp said. Read More. |
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