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Smith jail bond failure helping Upshur finances
Dec.18.2007 |
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When Smith County voters on Nov. 6 overwhelming rejected a bond issue to build a new jail in downtown Tyler, they did Upshur County a favor.
Upshur County is one of the counties which houses overflow prisoners from Smith County at $40 per inmate per day. “We’ve earned $350,000 since January housing Smith County prisoners,” Upshur County Sheriff Anthony Betterton said Monday.
About 70 percent of the voters in Smith County on Nov. 6 voted against the $125 million jail bond proposal. It was the second rejection of a jail bond proposal there in two years.
When Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith first took office in the late 1970s, the Smith County Jail averaged 28 inmates a day. Now Smith County has about 950 inmates, with a jail capacity of 755 beds.
Smith County officials are considering putting another jail bond proposal before voters next year.
Meanwhile, the money flows into the general funds in Upshur and other counties.
On Monday, there were 197 inmates in the Upshur County Jail. “And 100 of them are paying customers,” Betterton said. That means about $4,000 came in that one day from housing out-of-county prisoners.
Smith County projects it will need 1,582 beds by 2022 and 1,731 by 2027.
Estimated cumulative cost of housing its inmates in other counties over the next 20 years is $255 million.
For fiscal year 2007, Smith County spent over its budgeted $3.5 million budgeted for housing inmates out of county. News Archive >> |
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