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Tennessee Corrections officials say they will take back state inmates now being housed in the Coffee County jail. Sheriff Steve Graves says the move will relieve overcrowding at the Manchester facility, but will also cost the county money. The Sunday News reports state officers are expected to take 28 inmates from the jail today. Another five will be removed later this week. Now the county jail is certified to hold 196 inmates. The jail population last week was 254. The latest action means Coffee County’s jail will be over-capacity by 25 inmates. The county is reimbursed from $32 to $35 per day to house state inmates. Governor Bill Haslam says his administration is working to reduce the number of state prisoners being held in county jail and workhouses.
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Maybe someone smarter than me can show me how we (Coffee County residents) lose money when the state prisoners are/were removed. We only receive up to $32′ish per day to house them. An article that ran in the Tullahoma News last week that covered a meeting of the jail review committee with a person from Franklin County stated that it costs at least $54 per day to have any inmate in our jail. Counties around us have the number higher than that. I’ve asked the sheriff for our “daily” figure but haven’t received an answer on that from him. Seems to me that we actually SAVE money to see the state prisoners leave. As a matter of fact, last July in the open commission meetings the state prisoners were blamed for the overcrowding and a statement was made by officials that the reimbursement from the state in no way covered the cost to house the state prisoners. Doesn’t appear that they are the cause for the overcrowding since we’re still overcrowded. Hopefully someone will share their new math with me because it appears to improve our bottom line to see them go.