Bexar County Sheriff Hopes To Cut Overtime Costs For Jail Staff By Creating Mental Health Facility
/ Bexar County Courthouse Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar briefed county commissioners this week on his long-term plans to reduce huge overtime costs for staffing the jail. The county spent $10 million on overtime in 2020, according to the county manager’s office. Salazar on Tuesday pitched perhaps the biggest proposal of all to reduce the jail population and associated overtime for the jail staff — the creation of a mental health facility to house and treat eligible inmates. “Use that as a means of taking care of them other than trying to rely on our jail as a long-term solution to...
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