Jail Works To Meet State's Minimum Staffing Requirements

DALLAS -- Dallas County has given itself one month to reduce the inmate population of its crowded and understaffed jail as it works to meet the state's minimum staffing requirements.

Officials with the nation's seventh-largest jail system want to trim 1,000 inmates from the population of more than 7,000. The reduction would make the jail compliant with the state's minimum staffing requirement of one guard per 48 inmates, county officials said.

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