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Article: Winder seeking more beds for overflowing jail
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2007
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The Salt Lake County jail is bursting at the seams.
Faced with the problem of not having enough jail beds, Salt Lake
County Sheriff Jim Winder during the past few days patched up the
problem by releasing 10 women from the jail -- women who have
consistently violated court orders but are otherwise nonviolent
offenders.
Winder's long-term solution is to find more jail beds and
eventually reopen the Oxbow Jail, using the facility for
alternatives-to-incarceration programs.
The sheriff said Tuesday that he plans to make a formal request
to the County Council to provide emergency funding to open up 128
beds at the county jail. In November, he plans to ask the council
about Oxbow Jail.
"At some ...