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Committee flags risk to federal inmate contracts, seeks deeper review of jail staffing and contingencies
Summary
Members discussed how pending state bills and possible amendments to the US Marshals contract could remove federal inmate revenue that underpins the county budget; staff described past staffing cuts and warned of steep fiscal consequences if the contracts end.
County Manager Jim Geely and multiple committee members spent an extended portion of the meeting discussing the county’s contracts with federal entities (US Marshals Service, ICE and, to a lesser extent, the Federal Bureau of Prisons) and the budgetary sensitivity to those contracts.
Geely summarized the operational arrangement: federal contracts pay the county roughly $150 per day per federal inmate and the county currently budgets federal inmate revenue as a material line in the jail budget. He told the committee that commissioners voted 3-to-2 in November to keep the contract as written, but that several pieces of pending state legislation could alter the legal landscape. A committee member read aloud…
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