Silverdale Detention Center

CoreCivic is ending its contract to run the Silverdale Detention Center.

Sheriff Hammond plans to take the jail over and reorganize their jail facilities.

Hamilton county sheriff's office will be moving out to the silverdale detention center.

News 12's winston reed explains how the transition will work.

After 36 years of managing the silverdale detention center, core civic,a private jail company, is ending their contract with hamilton county.

The hamilton county sheriff's office plans to oversee the facility.

"it is my desire to eventually have everything out there and not have the jail downtown.

Leave the courts downtown -at least criminal courts."

Sheriff jim hammond hamilton county sheriff jim hammond says the tranisition could be a four year process.

"now what i've got to do is sit down with my finance folks and take a look at what that would look like.

I'll have a tenative by friday when i meet with the mayor."

Sheriff hammond says contracts with core civic and the jail totalled about 32 million dollars a year.

While the sheriff's office is challenged with keeping the budget lower, sheriff hammond faces another obstacle - competing with other companies like amazon and volkswagen to hire people.

"that's going to be problematic because you have a lot of slots to fill.

We're already short downtown probably up to 30 positions."

Standup: "sheriff hammond says the cost of maintenance for the silverdale facility could cost over 1 hundred thousand dollars.

Ensuring that that security is up to par for more serious criminal is also on his agenda.

Reporting in hamilton county winston reed news 12 now.

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