Parkersburg News and Sentinel, Marietta Times – The Wood County Commission is again looking at jail costs as those continue to increase for housing prisoners within the regional jail system.
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Sara Whitaker, senior criminal legal policy analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, talked to the commission this week on ways the county can better control its jail bill.
Wood County Administrator Marty Seufer said the jail bill for the current fiscal year will be around $2.5 million compared to $2 million last year. He is expecting it to increase another $250,000 next year if everything stays consistent with what it has this year and if the county has around the same number of inmates this year as it did last year.
