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Article: Outside factors affect Washington County Jail gets more crowded as state looks to relieve its packed prisons Series: ON JAIL OVERCROWDING IN OZAUKEE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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If Ozaukee County doesn't expand its jail now, officials there
say, they won't have far to look to glimpse the future.
The place is Washington County, where the jail is running an
occupancy rate that would make any innkeeper ecstatic. The guests,
of course, are usually less enthusiastic. They are paying in time,
not money.
The problem in Washington County is too little space for the
number of inmates. Officials with the Sheriff's Department keep
running totals of how many prisoners are expected to report vs. how
many will be eligible for release.
There is no prisoner deficit.
"We've got more coming in than we've got coming out," Sheriff
Jack Theusch said one day this fall. "Fourteen are ...