Thursday, March 18, 2010
The city will do “everything in our power to work with” Mahoning County to keep the jail open, but don’t count on Youngstown providing a financial bailout, its mayor says.
The city doesn’t have the money to match previous payments — $654,078 last year and $1,120,237 in 2008 — it gave the county to house Youngstown misdemeanor inmates, Mayor Jay Williams said today.
“That’s a position that has not changed,” he said. “Our financial condition has not changed since we started these discussions.”
Is there a solution?
“At this point, I don’t know,” Williams said.
The city’s contract to pay for its prisoners expired Feb. 28.
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