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Archive Home > 2007 > January > 14 > Jail plan hits snag

Jail plan hits snag

After voters approved funding to run an expanded Deschutes County jail, county commissioners and the sheriff are divided about how to proceed


January 14, 2007

For more than a year, Deschutes County Sheriff Les Stiles traveled the county telling voters he needed money to run a proposed expanded jail, but they wouldn't have to pay more taxes to build it.

The Deschutes County jail, he told them, was so overcrowded on a daily basis that inmates had to be....

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