Ackal Bails Out of Jail Contract.....

Sheriff Louis Ackal informed  Iberia Parish Councilmen he is out of tending the Parish Jail as of 31 July 2009.  What now. The Council can either give the Sheriff 500  thousand or more  dollars a year to keep it like it is  ,with  about 500 people in a prison built for 260 or they can get a private company to run that jail.  If the Council chooses to go with a private Company to run it, they need to go back to the original purpose for these small parish jails. These jails were to house local inmates with only a year or so to serve.  They were never designed to keep inmates with 20 or  30  years of prison time.  By going back to the original idea of the local jails the Parish can reduce the population to 260 in the jail.  Fewer  inmates will cost less.  Plus we will not have our local people  who are going to jail for simple breaking and  entering  or bar room fights  being stuck in jail with Bank Robbers, Rapists  and Killers just so the jail can make money from DOC or the Federal Prison System to house these felons with long jail sentences. I pray that the Council makes the right decision. Keep our jail for only short term ,local inmates  not all these criminal horrors from all around the United States.