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Seattle: Need for new jail questioned as the number of prisoners decreases

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Need for new jail questioned as inmate numbers drop By SCOTT GUTIERREZ SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF A shrinking number of inmates in the King County Jail is bucking prior forecasts and raising new questions about whether Seattle and its suburbs will need to build their own jail by 2013. Seattle and its neighbors to the north and east have been studying where to build a 640-bed, $110 million jail based on King County's warnings last year that it would no longer have room for misdemeanor offenders in three years. Cities in South King County also are collaborating on a new jail to be built in Des Moines. But instead of growing, the county jail's daily population is decreasing, by almost 6 percent during the last eight months, according to jail staff...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).