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Article: YAKIMA COUNTY ASSURES THAT INMATES WILL HAVE HOUSING.(News)

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April 1, 2003
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Byline: LEWIS KAMB P-I reporter

With only six months to go before 35 King County cities are to send hundreds of jail inmates over the Cascades, Yakima County has yet to find a site to build a new jail to help it fulfill that contract.

Plans to build the new jail on a 38-acre parcel within the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation fell through last month, leaving county officials scurrying to find an alternative site.

Still, Yakima County officials say they'll live up to their end of the bargain - new jail or not - when King County cities begin shipping misdemeanor offenders over the mountains in October.

"We think we can serve those ...

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