Outsourcing inmates: County looks to bond for jail expansion

By Samantha Smith

Continued overcrowding at the Hays County Jail is forcing county officials to keep with the trend of outsourcing prisoners to another facility to stem the flow. 

But the county is now accruing additional costs at taxpayers’ expense as they’re having to travel further to house the excess in prisoners. It’s now leading county officials to contemplate placing a $100 million new jail facility onto a possible November bond initiative.