Detention contract prompts heated debate; commissioners call for data and contingency plan
Residents and commissioners clashed over the county's long-standing detention contract. Critics raised due-process and legal concerns; officials emphasized the contract's fiscal role and said a strategic study and contingency planning are underway to assess tax impacts if the contract ends.
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A tense exchange at the Sept. 2 Pike County commissioners meeting focused on the county's 30-year detention contract after members of the public raised legal and moral concerns and asked whether the county had completed a cost analysis.
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