Niles proposes Trumbull County house city jail prisoners

NILES — The city is asking Trumbull County to take over housing its prisoners so it can convert the Niles jail into an eight-hour holding facility only.

“This arrangement would save Niles thousands of dollars every year,” said police Chief Robert Hinton who researched the proposal. Hinton said the exact amount of the savings was still being calculated.

Under Hinton’s plan, prisoners in the city jail could only be held up to eight hours and would be housed after that in Trumbull County jail. The police chief said the city would pay the county a fee based on the number of prisoners it sends.

The proposal has to be approved by county commissioners, who have already agreed to a similar plan to house prisoners from Warren.

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