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Jail threatens to put county in deficit
Updated: Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 12:53 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 23 Jul 2012, 12:53 PM EDT
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - A northwestern Indiana jail under pressure to hire more guards and make other federally-required changes is threatening to send the county's government into millions of dollars of deficit spending.
Lake County Councilman Rick Niemeyer tells The Times of Munster the county will face a shortfall next year "and the biggest part of it is going to be in the sheriff's budget" due to the required changes at the 1,040-bed lockup in Crown Point.
Council fiscal adviser Dante Rondelli say this year's budget already is $5 million in the red because of slow property tax collections.
But federal demands for more jail spending, including the hiring of 18 more corrections officers, threaten to add another $6 million in costs the county currently has no money to pay for.
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