CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) - Canyon County Commissioners in southwest Idaho have approved spending $245,000 for a study involving inmate housing and overcrowding at the county jail.
The Idaho Press Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/2r5Sq9u) that commissioners on Friday approved the contract with DLR Group to conduct the study.
The study will try to answer how long the current jail can be used, how much a new jail would cost, and how the existing jail could be renovated.
The jail has had overcrowding problems for years that led to a lawsuit and a federal consent decree in 2016 requiring the county to fix overcrowding and unsanitary jail conditions.
The county has spent $308,000 trying to take care of those problems.
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Information from: Idaho Press-Tribune, https://www.idahopress.com
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