PIERRE — The Hughes County Commission has signed off on an increase in the rate charged for housing inmates at the Hughes County Jail. Sheriff Patrick Callahan says he wants to bump the cost up 10-dollars…
If the rates increased with the consumer price index, the rate would be around 94-dollars per night. Callahan would like to see more changes in those holding rates…
Commission chair Randy Vance says keeping up with jail costs isn’t the only area where things at the jail were not paid attention to by previous administrations…
Commissioners approved a motion to increase the inmate holding rate to 94-dollars per night.
