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$49 million slashed from sheriff's budget
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PoliceNewsLink.Com
March 9, 2010, 10:36PM

HOUSTON - The sheriff's budget has ballooned in recent years with a rising jail population that necessitated $34 million in overtime spending last year and $15 million to pay jails in other counties and Louisiana to take about 1,100 inmates.


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