2006 costly for Sheriff

2006 costly for Sheriff : ServeNow.com: "It was a busy year for the Pratt County Sheriff's Department in 2006. They spent a lot of time on the road transporting prisoners and a lot of money on juveniles in 2006.

The budget for juveniles was $10,000 but one subject alone cost thes department $13,000 and the total cost for housing juvenile offenders was just over $23,000. By law, juvenile offenders can not be kept in the Pratt County Jail so they must pay to have them housed elsewhere.

'This was one of the costliest years in the history of this department for housing juvenile offenders,' said Pratt County Sheriff Vernon Chinn.

Juveniles accounted for 90 percent of the 33 burglaries in 2006 which was double the 17 in 2005. Nearly all burglaries were solved and some cases are in the process of being prosecuted, Chinn said.

While money flowed out for juvenile care, money came in for inmate care in Pratt from other facilities. The county took in $41,000 for inmate care and just over $4,000 for civil process fees. "