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Sheriff reports roof leak, equipment repairs and ongoing high jail population to Wichita County commissioners
Summary
At the Sept. 19 Wichita County Commissioners Court meeting, the sheriff reported ongoing jail maintenance work — including a roof leak, lighting repairs and a fixed garage door — and said out-of-county inmate counts fell after Collin County removed about 30 inmates, but daily population remained in the 590s with recent transfers to TDCJ.
The Wichita County Sheriff told the Commissioners Court on Sept. 19 that jail maintenance work underway includes a current roof leak, lighting repairs and a recently fixed garage door, and that although some out-of-county inmates left the jail the daily population remains high.
"There's a roof leak. There's a leak right now. There's 2 lights out of the building. The drivers for those lights have been replaced. There was a 113 work orders over the last 2 weeks completed, and we did get the…
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