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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 17 > State may send inmates to unused Multnomah County jail

State may send inmates to unused Multnomah County jail

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 17, 2009

PORTLAND — The state of Oregon may send female inmates to a jail that Multnomah County spent $58 million to build but can’t afford to operate.

The Wapato jail in north Portland was completed in 2004 and has been idle since.

Now, The Oregonian newspaper reports that state....

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