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Coweta County to begin phasing out local work-release/transitional center use and explore housing more state inmates
Summary
Warden Rogers and jail administrators proposed stopping new local work-release applications and shifting available capacity to house more state inmates for public-works details; the board directed staff to phase out the TC/work-release component and return with a detailed implementation plan, including staffing and court coordination.
Coweta County’s corrections leadership told commissioners on July 22 that the county’s work-release/transitional center (TC) has not reached capacity for many years and that operational and state-policy changes have limited local courts’ use of the program. Warden Rogers and county corrections staff proposed phasing out the county’s transitional-center/work-release function and replacing those beds with additional state inmates, which would allow the county to increase the regular workforce assigned to public-works and outside details.
Officials said the…
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