During Tuesday’s Wabash County Commissioners meeting, Sheriff Ryan Baker was given unanimous approval for an interlocal governmental agreement with Elkhart County to house Wabash County Jail inmates at a rate of $40 per day.
County Attorney Steve Downs had previously given his approval to the agreement.
Baker said he just needed the commissioners’ signatures on the agreement, which was scheduled to run through the end of 2020.
After the meeting, Baker said this was a new formalized agreement with Elkhart County.
“We have not had one in the past,” he said.
Baker said the county routinely sends inmates to both Miami and Elkhart counties “because we have more prisoners than beds.”
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