Should Inmate Welfare Fund be Regulated?

today how the inmate welfare fund at the detention center works. commissioners expressed their concerns over the way things are spent and who’s in charge of it all abc7s jamie warren is live from the dona ana county government center with the details jamie? according to today’s powerpoint slide here at the work session, the welfare fund currently has over 700,000 dollars in it. 3:29:05 hancock this is something very serious that we need to address at a commission level hancock said with so much money at stake, there needs to be more regulations over the inmate welfare fund. a powerpoint presented to commissioners showed a spike in numbers to the welfare fund around the years 2011 to 2012 county attorney nelson goodin says thats because the detention centers food service company aramark started giving the county 34 percent of the profits instead of 25 but some said making a profit off inmates and giving more money to the county is alarming 1409 wayne hancock its hard to get sympathy for inmates not getting salt thats not one of those things that gets put high on the list is it of concern and is it there on the list? yes it is 1403 chris barela jail administrator im not concerned that we’re not providing condition and confinement for the inmates that are appropriate however if they feel that we need to enhance that in any shape or form we will some commissioners questioned why this issue is being brought up now.. county attorney nelson goodin says back in 2009 an audit was performed detailing how funds were spent. he says the issue was also brought up at a meeting in 2012. a story hitting close to home for parents who send their kids off on a school bus. in houston, two teenage girls were killed when their