ANDREWS – Monetary savings involved with the county’s new $28-million jail/sheriff’s office facility are now being realized after inmates who were previously transferred to other counties have come back, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said.
Those savings-which will be substantial-are experienced through not housing inmates at other counties, which was standard practice for years after the former jail facility was stretched past capacity.
That’s the difference between the new 144-bed jail and the former facility that could house a maximum of 39 inmates.
Andrews County Sheriff Rusty Stewart said Tuesday that all inmates previously housed in outside facilities were back in Andrews at the ...