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Soaring jail cost handcuffs county
Warren County Jail
A proposed jail expansion has been placed on lockdown after a low project bid of $8.31 million was received, nearly $2 million over budget. “We just don’t have the money,” said Warren County Executive Herschel Wells, chair of the Financial Management Committee which met Monday to consider the bid. Borrowed was $6.5 million for jail expansion.