Litany of proposals given to commissioners includes $80 million for corrections

GREENFIELD — A multimillion- dollar new jail is back on the table for discussion by Hancock County officials, after a two-year hiatus as the jail population has decreased.

Officials say they don’t know why the daily population at the jail is lower on most days now than it was three years ago.

But when Hancock County Commissioners met last week to plan ahead for the next five years of projects, the suggestion of an $80 million facility to be built in 2017 stuck out like a sore thumb.

And with dozens of other expenses on the rise, the county’s executive branch is thinking about taking on debt to pay for upcoming projects.

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