How many people are sent to Pinellas County Jail each year?”
Just two years ago, the Pinellas County Jail was chronically overcrowded. The facility at times housed 1,000 more inmates than it was designed to hold. Some slept on the floor. But an effort by justice officials to reduce the jail population has worked. In addition, a new medical building opened and an old bus garage nearby was converted into an annex. Now, the jail has hundreds of empty beds. Sheriff Jim Coats hopes to make that pay off — literally. The sheriff will meet with Florida Corrections Secretary Walt McNeil in Tallahassee on Friday to discuss housing state prison inmates in the jail — for a price. The federal government paid the county $2.9 million last fiscal year to house prisoners for the U.S. Marshals and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Maybe the county can strike the same kind of deal with the state, the sheriff said. “This would give us an opportunity to make more law enforcement resources available to the citizens,” Coats said. But the sheriff stressed that
Online information inquiries for inmates booked into the Pinellas County Jail are available for arrests made November 28, 2005 to present. Information for arrests prior to November 28, 2005 can be found online at the Clerk of the Circuit Court website, www.pinellasclerk.org.
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