Jail hire request substantially reduced

By DAMON LAWRENCE

dlawrence@roanecounty.com

Eight full time and four part time.

Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said that’s how many additional employees he thinks it might take to operate the county’s new jail.  

“We’ve done assessments, walkthroughs and looked at every angle about making the housing pod safe for the inmates and also the officers,” Stockton said. “That would probably be a minimum number that we would need to make it safe.”

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