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Oktibbeha supervisors adopt standardized prisoner-housing policy, set $35 daily rate for noncontracted inmates
Summary
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors approved a new prisoner-housing policy that standardizes contracts, adopts a circuit-court timing standard for county responsibility and sets an uncontracted housing rate of $35 per day; municipalities have 60 days to negotiate new agreements.
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt a standardized prisoner-housing policy and to set an uncontracted daily housing rate of $35, actions officials said are intended to clarify when municipalities must transfer custody and to provide a single template for interlocal contracts.
County Administrator Wayne Carman told the board staff and the county attorney had worked on the draft policy to fill what he described as “a gap in the law” about when a municipal prisoner becomes a county prisoner. The policy designates the circuit-court (indictment) standard as the point at which custody…
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