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Warrick County council approves funding to add four jailers for new facility
Summary
Sheriff Mike Wilder asked the council to fund four additional jailers to staff a substantially larger jail; he proposed using $1.7 million in public-safety LIT funds and estimated roughly $800,000 for three years of salaries. The council voted 7-0 to approve the request.
Sheriff Mike Wilder asked the Warrick County Council on the meeting floor to approve funding for four additional jailers as the sheriff's office prepares to move into a new, larger detention facility this spring.
Wilder told the council the new building will grow the jail from roughly 32,000 square feet to about an 84,000-square-foot facility and that his office is short-handed: "we only have three jailers overseeing a 100 people," he said,…
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