Wichita County To Vote On Jail Overflow Issue

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Story Created: Nov 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 15, 2009 at 8:49 PM CST

The Wichita County Jail is still seeing an over-flow of inmates.

On Monday, County Commissioners will vote on renewing a contract that will allow some inmates to be housed in the Montague County Jail, but that transfer of inmates is not free; the cost for each inmate is paid for by Wichita County. The cost is about $35 a day per inmate housed in another jail.

This summer, the jail saw a record number of inmates with some even having to sleep on the floor.

Sheriff David Duke told us at the time that building a larger book-in unit"could alleviate some of the overflow since 70% of inmates are released within three days.

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