By Bobby Horn Jr.
news@casscountynow.com
LINDEN—Running and maintaining a jail is not cheap, especially when that jail is in its second decade of service. Cass County is learning that lesson.
Since 2003, the county has put close to $100,000 in repairs and equipment upgrades into the county’s jail says Sheriff Larry Rowe.
The most recent expense, Rowe said, was to replace a chiller unit on the a/c which stopped working in early March. “We were lucky the a/c went out when it did because it wasn’t too hot outside,” Rowe said. “If it had happened this summer it would have been a lot worse.”
The new chiller set the county back $33,000. This was not an optional cost for the county. “We have to keep operating with minimum jail standards (required by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards) or they will shut us down,” Rowe said.
