Prisoners returned to Jasper County

Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Vernon County jail recently had an influx of prisoners from Jasper County, because that county's jail was woefully overcrowded, but an effort to house those prisoners in the Vernon County jail instead was short-lived. Sheriff Ron Peckman said that there were about 20 prisoners being held in the jail at the request of Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn, but all of the prisoners were sent back to Jasper County at the first of May.

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