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Board approves extra jail nursing hours to meet new medication‑continuity law
Summary
Becker County approved adding nursing coverage at its jail to comply with a July 2025 statute requiring facilities to continue incarcerated people’s prescribed medications. The board voted to increase contracted nursing hours and discussed using inmate‑housing revenue or opioid‑settlement funds to cover costs.
Becker County commissioners on Tuesday approved adding 24 contracted nursing hours at the county jail to comply with a state mandate that correctional facilities continue administering prescribed medications after intake.
Sheriff (speaker 9) told the board the July 1, 2025 change (referenced in the packet as Minnesota statute 241.021, subd. 4(f)) requires jails to maintain a person’s prescribed regimen unless the original prescriber and jail clinician both agree to a change. The new…
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