Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 July 1948 — JAIL FULL, SHERIFF DOESN’T WANT ANY MORE [ARTICLE]

JAIL FULL, SHERIFF DOESN’T WANT ANY MORE

The growing population of the Lake county jail, plus the rise in living costs, has caused Sheriff L. B. Clayton to take sharp issue with Hammond, Gary and East Chicago city judges for the number of persons sent to the county jail to serve sentences instead of sending them to the state penal farm at Pendleton The sheriff pointed out that his food budget is not big enough to provide the 182 prisoners now in the jail and if this figure keeps growing because city judges sentenced them he will have to go to the city council and ask for more funds. This, he said he doesn’t want to do and won’t if he can get co-operation from the judges.