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Jail population continues to rise as county looks for solutions
By courierpress.com- Mark Wilson
Published: 03/20/2018

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The search for a solution to Vanderburgh County's jail overcrowding problem led Sheriff Dave Wedding and a delegation to Florida on Monday.

Wedding, jail commander Major Chad Ferguson and architectural representatives toured the Putnam County, Florida jail for ideas on designing and operating a larger detention facility.

Over the weekend the number of Vanderburgh County inmates exceeded 800, Wedding said. Nearly all of those inmates are being housed in a jail designed to hold 553.

Wedding said about 100 inmates are being housed in six other area jails. However, he said other counties face overcrowding problems too, making it increasingly difficult to find additional facilities to hold Vanderburgh's inmates.

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