Commissioners added another $22.5 million to its budget for rehoming inmates to make it happen.
Tarrant County commissioners will send another 68 inmates from the Tarrant County Jail to a private jail in Garza County, they decided at their meeting Tuesday.
Commissioners also voted to exempt the county from the government code that would have required it to seek other facilities to house inmates.
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