Economic Elbow Room: County aims for cost savings in jail expansion

SBJ PHOTO BY WES HAMILTON

On a dreary February day, the inmates were cluttered inside the stainless-steel trailers. Welded together, the large structure situated behind the Greene County Justice Center makes a rectangular shape with a central courtyard capped with barbed wire. Because of the cold – all 98 inmates couldn’t go into the temporary jail’s courtyard, making it chaotic as they sat on the edges of bunks and tried to move in the long hallways.

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