The sheriff’s office had warned that a $3.4 million budget shortfall could force it to close more than 200 beds, losing nearly a fifth of the jail’s capacity.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Multnomah County board of commissioners voted Thursday to approve a one-time allocation of $3.4 million in general fund dollars for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, which requested the budgetary boost earlier this month and warned that without the money, it would need to close 219 of the county’s 1,130 jail beds.
The sheriff’s office said the shortfall was related to Oregon’s 1995 Senate Bill 1145, which set up county jails to house certain inmates
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