Counties needing help with jails as costs and budgets continue to rise - WNKY News 40 Television

Counties needing help with jails as costs and budgets continue to rise - WNKY News 40 Television

LOGAN COUNTY, Ky. – The end of the Kentucky legislative session had brought out hundreds of new bills signed into law, but some local leaders are concerned about those that haven’t passed. Specifically, laws that help relieve some of the pain in the jail systems. In Logan County, the budge for their jail is in excess of $4 million, which is used to take care of both county and state inmates at the jail. But Logan County Judge Executive Phil Bake…