The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department is moving closer to housing federal inmates, and that may mean some extra money for local officers. “I think we’re getting real close to getting them,” Sheriff Jeff Richwine told the county commissioners Monday. “We’re just waiting on an application process. The U.S. Marshals contacted us, and we’re starting to get forms made out.”
He said some part-time officers will be needed to transport the federal inmates. The federal government will reimburse the county for that expense, but Richwine still needs to look into how that will work with the county’s salary ordinance. “They pay a lot more than what the county pays their part-time employees,” he said, “so I don’t know how we’re going to figure that out.”
The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department has been making some extra money by housing out-of-county inmates. But the federal government pays more than the state or other counties.
Richwine told the commissioners Monday that the department’s plans to get a second K-9 are also moving ahead. Now that a kennel has been installed in the department’s Chevrolet Tahoe, the K-9 officer will pick out a dog in July. Following the necessary training, Richwine expects the K-9 to be in service by the end of September.
