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PIC update: Washington state counties, cities compete for cheaper jail beds
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/11/11/2884070/washington-state-counties-cities.html
Washington state counties, cities compete for cheaper jail beds
By SEAN ROBINSON
Staff writer
November 11, 2013
Overheard on a Tacoma police scanner channel, Oct. 25, 2013:
Officer: Can you call Fife before I drive all the way out there, and see if they’re taking females?
Dispatcher: The bad news is, they’re not.
Officer: OK, so I guess I’m going to … county?
~snip~
Those Tacoma inmates used to go to the Pierce County Jail. The city paid a fee to house them, and the money buttressed the county jail’s budget. Now that money — about $5 million a year — is gone, and the county is struggling with the aftershocks.
