"It helps my county out, and it helps them out." That contract is based on a rate of $35 per bed per day. Obie Sims, the Lafayette County sheriff, said Madison County will pay him about $190,000 this year to reserve 15 beds in his jail. Lafayette County, where Lewisville is the county seat, agreed to take 15, but only eight of Madison County's detainees have been transferred down there so far, Evans said. Logan County, south across the Arkansas River, took another eight Madison County detainees who were committed through the Arkansas Department of Corrections.īut the next-closest jail that would accept any of his detainees was in southwest Arkansas, said Evans. Carroll County took about eight, and Newton County took five, said Evans. Neighboring counties in the Ozark Mountains tried to be neighborly. Madison County usually has about 40 of them. But with that jail overcrowded, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder ended the agreement.Įvans said he's been busy looking for places to put his detainees. In 2014, the state's 4th District Criminal Detention Facilities Review Committee found that the Madison County jail - which was built in the early 1980s to accommodate eight beds - didn't comply with state standards, so it was converted to a 24-hour holding facility.įrom 2015 until the end of 2021, Madison County's longer-term detainees were held in the Washington County jail - 30 miles to the west in Fayetteville. It's a long haul from Huntsville to Lewisville - about 300 miles.īut that's how far Madison County Sheriff Rick Evans is having to go to find lodging for his prisoners.
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