Article: COUNTY JAILS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO HOLD STATE PRISONERS

Article: Soon, state prisoners won't be sent to ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... STAFF WRITER State prisoners won't be ... Minnesota's county jails after July ... Minnesota's county jails averaged 360 state prisoners a day in 2008 ... year. Some state prisoners will remain in county jails through December ...

Article: County jails to keep state prisoners
Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.;  March 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... balked at terminating a contract to house state prisoners in county jails. Despite directing jail officials last month ... 27 million contract to house about 1,200 state prisoners in county jails, supervisors continued the debate Tuesday ...

Article: County jails decry recent cuts in payments for ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... house short-term state prisoners in county jails. Each prisoner ... reimbursement for state prisoners will dwindle to ... an average of 12 state prisoners a day as costs ... Sheriffs and county jails all over Minnesota ...

Article: Workshops tackle tough issues. (state prisoners in ...
Corrections Today;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Editor's note: During this year's Winter Conference, 35 workshops were held on a wide range of topics. Rather than give short shrift to a portion of these workshops, the following are detailed reports on two workshops attended by CT staff. Housing state inmates in jails was the topic of a workshop

Article: County jails cope with inmate ...
The Bond Buyer;  March 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... on prison overcrowding sent state prisoners to the counties, said Larry ... Criminal Justice. "We saw county jails stacked like cord wood with ... one point, the backlog of state prisoners in county jails topped 35,000 - more than ...

Article: SENATE VOTES TO LET STATE KEEP EXCESS PRISONERS IN COUNTY ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 1, 1994 ;     581 words ... ... KEEP EXCESS PRISONERS IN COUNTY JAILS By BILL SANDERSON, Trenton ... program of keeping prisoners in county jails and gives the state a disincentive ... flawed. To justify housing state prisoners in county jails, governors have used a World ...

Article: MORE INMATES GOING TO STATE PRISONS FROM COUNTY ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  May 11, 1990 ;     660 words ... ... relieve crowding in county jails that have been ... the number of state prisoners being housed in county jails has declined from ... said that housing state prisoners is "just part of the problem" for county jails. Like the state ...