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Jailer warns Marshall County of rising cost to house state inmates, urges support for House Bill 557
Summary
Marshall County jailer Roger Ford told the fiscal court that long pretrial holds and state inmates are creating thousands of unpaid detention days that strain the county budget; he urged support for House Bill 557 and asked the court to accept his budget submission.
Roger Ford, the Marshall County jailer, told the fiscal court on March 17 that the jail is carrying a substantial financial burden from long-held pretrial and state inmates and asked members to keep House Bill 557 in mind as they finalize budget plans.
Ford gave specific detention-day examples and said 12 inmates have been held more than 200 days. He said the jail currently has 53 county inmates, 51 of whom are pretrial, and…
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