LAWRENCE COUNTY – Lawrence County Chief Public Defender, Tim Sledd, shared updates to the jail population and efforts made by his department during the Lawrence County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning.
Sheriff Mike Branham was attending to another issue and was unable to attend the meeting, but Sledd shared that as of Tuesday morning, the jail population was at 101 individuals.
The goal of his department is to help get inmates through their trials and on to the next phase of heading to the Department of Corrections (DOC), or even out of the cell for a minor offense, to help alleviate the numbers in the jail.
He shared that eight individuals were awaiting their transfer to DOC and that there were plenty more that could be getting transferred soon as well, to lower the total population.
He believes his department is doing a great job in helping get inmates through the system on out of the county jail.
