With income for housing prisoners in Allen County’s jail on the wane, county commissioner Gary McIntosh said Tuesday morning that commissioners “collectively ought to talk with the sheriff (Tom Williams) about taking prisoners.”
Williams said in a report published in the Register Monday he was reluctant to recruit prisoners from metropolitan counties, for fear their presence would encourage an element to come to Iola that he preferred not to have in the area.
Commissioner Dick Works noted, “it is our responsibility to provide the jail, the…
Commission discusses jail
