It’s been 30 years since Elmore County has built a jail.
It was built to house 242 inmates in 1995, when the population of Elmore County was 55,000. Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin was in the same role then when his department moved just over 100 inmates from the old jail to the new jail overnight.
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