When does it become more feasible and financially responsible to build a new jail here as opposed to continuing to pay other counties to house local prisoners.
That was the basic question posed Tuesday at the Dawson County Commissioners Court meeting as inmate housing expenses soar and hundreds of arrest warrants go unserved because of the situation.
Commissioners gave County Judge Foy O’Brien the go-ahead to start looking for an answer to the question of whether a new jail here might now be financially feasible.
It wasn’t judged to be so at this time last year, when a proposal for a new jail ...