Missouri Town releases inmates because it has no money to feed them

Five people that were being held on misdemeanor charges were released from custody after the jail didn't have the money to feed them.  This just goes to show you the declining state of the corrections, jails, and prisons systems.  The budget constraints on jails are so tight they are releasing people because they can't afford to pay them.  It is so politically correct to be tough on crime, yet, no one thinks about the enormous cost of locking all these people up.

Here is the article in the Kansas City Star.

NE Missouri Town releases inmates if can't feed

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WELLSTON, Mo. — The police chief of a St. Louis suburb released all the city jail's inmates because his department didn't have the money to feed them.  Wellston Police Chief G. Thomas Walker said he released five people being held on misdemeanors on Wednesday. He says the city isn't providing money for inmates' meals and officers who were buying food for the inmates have not been reimbursed.

Walker says he has no control over the police budget, and claimed Mayor Linda Whitfield is interfering with his department's operations.  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Walker says misdemeanor prisoners who don't post bail quickly might have to be released. Those held on felonies will go to the county jail.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/26/4368840/ne-missouri-town-releases-inmates.html#storylink=cpy

Accident in Jackson County Kansas involving a Road Grater leaves man seriously injured

Richard Heim of St. Mary's Kansas, was seriously injured in an accident in Jackson County, Kansas.  According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Richard Heim was driving his 2005 Ford Focus on 118th Road, at or near the intersection of 118th and D Road, just two miles north of Delia.  Somehow a Caterpillar Road Grater operated by Steven Rose, of Delia, struck the driver's side of the Ford with the Road Grater.  Richard Heim received serious injures and was transported to Storemont Vail.  It is unknown at this time what caused the road grater and it's operator to strike the ford.

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Accident involving Tractor and Semi Truck leaves young man seriously injured

An accident in Clinton County Missouri has left a young man seriously injured.  Jason Mink, age 15, of Gower, had to be flown to the Children's Mercy Hospital after the accident on July 22, 2013.  The facts of the accident as reported by the Missouri Highway Patrol and its investigating officer CPL M.S. Belshe, claim that on July 22, 2103 at approximately 12:05 p.m. both vehicles were traveling east bound on Missouri Highway 116.  A 2001 Mac Truck driven by Jodie Downs of St. Joesph, crested a hill and began to pass a 2000 New Holland Tractor driven by Jason Mink.  As the semi-truck was passing the tractor, the tractor operator signals and turns the tractor onto a gravel road.  At this point the semi-truck strikes the young man in the tractor. The impact caused serious damage to both vehicles.  Jodie Downs was taken to Liberty Hospital by ambulance.

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