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Saturday, April 01, 2017

Inmate costs down, confrontations increase

Worcester County Jail Warden Garry Mumford told the county commissioners this week that even though costs for food and medical care for inmates were down, use-of-force interventions along with an increased number of addicts or mentally ill prisoners could end up costing the county more money.

During his detailed budget hearing earlier this week, Mumford said about 35 percent of inmates have addiction or mental health issues, and may have neglected their care before becoming incarcerated. In those situations, he explained, the person must be brought up to an acceptable standard, which could end up costing the county money.

However, use of in-house medical facilities had the jail lower this year’s budget request by almost a third to $55,000. Last year, $85,000 was budgeted.

Beyond medical care, Mumford said these inmates tended to be unruly.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a way to be sure you keep your gov't job, reduce cost at the expense of the inmates. More drug and mental illness inmates but let's cut the medical budget, meaning they do not get the care they need so no wonder more confrontations. It is proven well fed inmates are LESS troublesome, so once again increase confrontation by serving food which he nor his staff would ever eat!

Anonymous said...

Screw the inmates they should have no rights... They should be forced to work hard labor 10 hours a day and fed the bare minimum.

Anonymous said...

Just crazy like the 911 director wanting dispatchers being paid the same as police officers