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Belknap County corrections superintendent warns staffing, revenue pressure as jail population shifts
Summary
Superintendent Michelle Leatherby told commissioners the jail holds 76 people (63 pretrial), increasing reliance on pretrial services, reducing work‑release revenue; she outlined program participation, staffing vacancies, equipment needs and a single pretrial inmate with cancer whose medical costs could affect the budget.
Michelle Leatherby, the county corrections superintendent, told the Belknap County commissioners the jail’s in‑custody population stood at 76, including 63 pretrial detainees and 13 sentenced inmates. She said the high share of pretrial cases reduces work‑release and electronic‑monitoring revenue that historically offsets parts of the corrections budget.
Leatherby described program participation numbers: three inmates on electronic monitoring, two on work release, three in a full “core” program, six voluntarily participating on the pretrial side and 44 accepted to external rehabilitation programs. She said many pretrial defendants are being supervised in the…
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