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Today's Poll!State inmates at jail costing Cole County
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Over the past couple of weeks, the new Cole County Jail has been running at about 80 percent of capacity, with an average daily population of 131-141 inmates.
But Presiding Commissioner Marc Ellinger has some concerns about these figures. Ellinger noted the county only gets around $20 a day to house prisoners on state charges and, with the actual cost of housing each inmate running around $78 a day, the county loses more money the longer an inmate stays in the county jail.
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herekitty 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Put the jailbirds to work. Let them earn thier keep! Turn the A C off or alot warmer. 5 degrees cooler then the outside temp. They are in there because they did wrong. Jail doesn't mean fun & games.
JCLifer 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sounds like sinking millions of dollars into the new jail was not such a great idea after all. Too bad they just didn't use one of the halls over at the old MSP.
I agree with kitty- why do we taxpayers have to pay so much to make prisoners so comfortable.
dokeus6 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Start charging the actual rate for the prisoners. How obvious is this? If the state can find somewhere cheaper let them.
PatsyDecline 9 months, 3 weeks ago
What a surprise....a government agency that can't perform basic math.
Just wait until after this silly Prop 2 goes down in flames....the next plea for more tax money will be to pay for this money pit of a jail.
Business as usual.
Government lies and incompetence always cost the taxpayer....the folks at fault usually get promoted or simply retire to suck up their pension money.
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