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State Forces Minneapolis Jail to Ship Out Detainees
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2025, page 26
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers.
Location:
Minnesota.
Facing persistent and critical short staffing, commissioners in Minnesota’s Hennepin County voted on December 3, 2024, to spend $5.4 million to ship 266 of over 800 detainees from the county jail to lockups in other Minnesota counties. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) had given Sheriff Dewanna Witt until December ...
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