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Sheriff details detention center costs, medical contract and equipment needs including tasers and Wi‑Fi upgrade
Summary
Sheriff’s presentation covered detention medical costs, building maintenance increases, toilet and lock replacements, a jail Wi‑Fi upgrade tied to a new jail management system, expensive taser replacement contracts, and the need for a sewer repair under a female pod.
During the budget hearing the sheriff described a range of detention‑center and equipment requests that the department says are driven by aging infrastructure, contract costs and changes in equipment life cycles.
The sheriff said the county’s contract medical provider and outside medical costs for detainees are a major, rising expense in the jail budget and that the county is discussing alternatives. He said KDADS payments for individuals awaiting state placements (e.g., Larned) provide intermittent offset payments (roughly $100 per day in cases cited), but that federal inmate counts have…
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