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To: JakeStraw who wrote (280598)	3/17/2006 11:09:19 AM
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Spiffy new jail too expensive to open PORTLAND, Ore., March 16, 2006 (UPI) -- A $59 million jail featuring art and flat screen TVs in Portland, Ore., has been sitting unused for more than a year as the city can't afford to open it. The Wapato Facility took two years to construct and can house 525 inmates at a cost of $20 million per year, which would please Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto to no end. But the county says it doesn't have that kind of money, and expects to be in the hole at least $32 million next year. The county spent more than $600,000 on art for the jail, including a sculpture out front by the circular driveway. There are 30-foot vaulted ceilings and private showers. "I love coming to an empty $59-million jail," Giusto told the Los Angeles Times. "I get tired of telling people how dumb we are." Further frustrating Giusto is a shortage of jail beds that has forced police around the city to systematically release inmates early to make room for new ones.

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