Jail outsourcing cost totals over $1.5 million

Hays County spent $83,921 to outsource inmates to eight different counties across Texas last week.

In 2019, the County has spent a total of $1,593,931 on outsourcing since it began reading reports from the Hays County Sheriff’s Office in the last week of January. This number does not include the three weeks that the commissioners court did not meet or did not read outsourcing information.

For the week of July 28- Aug. 3, the average number of outsourced males was 201, with an average of 24 outsourced females. Inmates were outsourced to the following counties: Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Burnett, Caldwell, Fort Bend, Guadalupe and Walker.