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Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates
Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates UPDATE: Bail reform is one of the key reasons why the half-empty Passaic County Jail will close its doors for good and send all of its current and future inmates to Bergen County's lockup, officials said. Bergen County officials say they’ll receive a minimum $18.9 million the first year and somewhere in the neighborhood of $195.5 million over the course of the 10-year deal. Their counterparts in Passaic County say they won’t have to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on a new jail to replace the decrepit 164-year-old lockup on Marshall Street, which has remained half empty for some time now…

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by Jerry DeMarco