With the Bexar County jail near its capacity, BCSO has been housing 120 to 150 inmates between the Burnet and Kerry County jails at any given time to ensure they have room. The inmates are all “paper ready,” meaning they have been convicted and are just waiting for Texas Department of Criminal Justice to pick them up and bring them to prison.
‘It’s not worth it’: Man injured at Market Square Fiesta event says more should have been done to prevent shooting BCSO has been housing 120 to 150 inmates at a time between the Burnet and Kerr County jails because of capacity issues
When the time for that comes, the inmates are first brought back to Bexar County, which is 107 miles away from Burnet County and 66 miles away from Kerr County. When KSAT asked whether the capacity issues might reignite discussion for a new jail, Salazar was dubious that the county would ever get a new jail. But he believes expanding the existing jail, possibly with another tower, “is something that we may need to consider strongly here in the next couple of years.”
On Jun. 10, the inmate population reached 5,024. By the end of June, the average daily population was 4,919 inmates. The agency also has construction plans at the jail for early 2025 that will force it to close down four living units at a time, each with 48 to 88 people, further compounding the population problem.
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