The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following statement.
STATE INMATES REMOVED FROM HINDS COUNTY JAIL
JACKSON – Hinds County is no longer participating in a program that allows it to house and work state inmates.
Fifty-seven offenders assigned to the Joint State County Work Program (JSCWP) were moved on Thursday, and most were placed at community work centers.
Attorney Ron Welch, who approves jails for the JSCWP, informed the Mississippi Department of Corrections this week that Hinds County had not renewed its participation. Also, the county said it did not object to the removal of the inmates.
Hinds County was one of 26 counties with an agreement with MDOC to house inmates at the counties’ expense. The remaining counties are Alcorn, Bolivar, Carroll, Montgomery, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Jefferson, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Panola, Pearl River, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Simpson, Stone, Tate, Union, Winston, and Tallahatchie.
Kingfish note: The Street Committee says the Sheriff chose not to participate in this program due to the consent decree with the Justice Department. DOJ recommended that the county no longer house state prisoners when it needed room for the local variety. Four federal monitors will perform the same monitoring services as did Ron Welch.
8 comments:
No need to house state inmates for free when the SO has so many other things to deal with. Good move.
Kingfish, your note should say the same services that Welch "allegedly" performed. If he was doing his job, how did the jail get so damn bad and he never filed any report? As long as the county paid, he kept approving. . . County ought to get some money back.
Welch is a scam. The whole program only made sense when the state paid for the service.
Welch is nothing more than a shakedown artist.
Welch is an 80 year old Judge Keady Wannabee who never did jack shit but complain and grab headlines by threatening the establishment. That shit, like cries of racism, doesn't work any more.
Board attorney called his bluff, unlike any county official for the last 10 years. Welch is a bully and has made a lucrative business for himself.
Don't blame this diminutive toad for his status. Blame the judge who gave it to him.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that Welch is somehow covered by the PERS retirement plan.
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