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Jail closure expected to save county $500K

Local police departments impacted by increased costs for transport


RBC | Nine months after the closure of the Rio Blanco County Detention Center, numbers demonstrating savings to the county have been made available to the HT.

Rio Blanco County Sheriff Anthony Mazzola first announced the intention to close the jail and begin housing inmates in the Moffat County Detention Center in a September 2021 interview, followed a week later by an op-ed response to community…