The Bigger the Jail, the More Criminals That Come to Fill It ; Within 2 Years of Jail Expansion, Prisoners Were Sleeping in Gymnasium Due to Surge in Arrests.

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DAYTON -- Build it, and they will come. It's become a familiar pattern with Montgomery County's jail.

In 1993, Montgomery County opened its current jail on West Second Street downtown and it had a capacity of 679 prisoners. Within two years, prisoners were being housed on cots on the jail gymnasium floor to handle a surge of domestic violence arrests.

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The Bigger the Jail, the More Criminals That Come to Fill It ; Within 2 Years of Jail Expansion, Prisoners Were Sleeping in Gymnasium Due to Surge in Arrests.

In 2004, the county remodeled the jail at a cost of $17 million to add another 239 beds to the jail. In less than a year, the...

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