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MS: Free labor and $29.74 per day from the state...communities clamor for regional jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sunday, Jun. 28, 2009 Miss. communities clamor for regional jails By JACK ELLIOTT JR. - Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. -- There are 11 county/regional jails scattered around Mississippi. With them, the Mississippi Department of Corrections has created its own cottage industry. Locally, the prisons provide lockups for offenders, jobs for local residents and a free labor force for public works projects. So popular are they that at least three more could open within the next year. The question is, does the state need the beds? Yes, says Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps. "If you need a jail, what better way to get it than sign a 20-year agreement with the state?" Epps said. "The reason you want as many state inmates as you can get is because we are going to pay you $29...continue to full post

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