The 212-bed expansion of the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton is pictured above under construction in December.
When it meets on Monday, the Anderson County Commission will consider a resolution declaring the Anderson County Jail as a county workhouse.
The proposal was unanimously approved on Monday by the county’s Operations Committee. If approved Monday by the full Commission, it will give judges more options when sentencing certain offenders. Additionally, some inmates could get time taken off their sentences in exchange for days spent on county work details.
The resolution declaring the jail a workhouse will allow some offenders to serve their jail sentences at night after being allowed to go to their jobs or in some cases to take care of their families during the day. The 212-bed expansion of the jail will make this possible by providing officials with enough room to properly segregate different types of inmates—based upon their criminal histories and the nature of their crimes—and use one portion of the expansion as the actual workhouse, which would also be used to search inmates returning from the outside for contraband before heading back to their cells.
It is still unclear as to when the multi-million expansion will open, but it should be sometime this year. The Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Room 312 of the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.
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