The tents are empty.
As part of the Department’s effort to cut costs due to declining tax revenues all inmates have been removed from the five tent complex at the James A. Musick Facility.
The tents were opened in North Compound of the Musick facility as temporary housing in 1985. The use of tents were authorized by the federal court and housed up to 360 minimum security inmates. The tents were outfitted with heating and air conditioning.
Closing the tent complex is expected to save $1.2 million a year.
The complex included four housing tents, Blue, Yellow, Green and Red. There was also a recreational tent. All of the occupants were sentenced inmates and each housing tent held 90 in minimum security status.
The inmates included work crews for IRC and the Musick Facility.
All of the inmates formerly housed in the North Compound have been relocated to other compounds at Musick.
The staff, which included eight Deputies and four Sheriff’s Special Officers, have been given other assignments in the Custody Command.
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