A new maximum security jail in northern Bossier Parish should
begin construction by mid year, following a Spring bid letting.
The 412-bed jail is estimated to cost $26 million, and should
be completed in 2005.
Once finished, the jail will replace a smaller, 131-bed jail
situated on top of the Bossier Parish courthouse, and should
remedy a jail-overcrowding problem. Funding for the construction
is coming from a half-cent sales tax.
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