Crime is up in Pierce County but jails are not at full capacity and a big reason is due to low staffing numbers. FOX13
"We have enough space in jail. The problem is we don’t have deputies to work those other spaces where we could house more inmates," said Sergeant Darren Moss with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
Right now, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department says out of 262 corrections deputies positions there are 55 vacancies."I believe we lost 28 deputies over this entire year, but 20 of those came all within the summer and put us to, pretty much, a staffing crisis in the jail, at this time," said Moss.
In comparison, in January there were 65 instances of forced doubles, and in February there were only nine instances of forced doubles.
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