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The cost of housing prisoners in WV continues to be a hot issue and a problem for many WV counties.
A circuit judge in Cabel County has ruled that the state Regional Jail and Correctional Authority uses an unfair system to calculate the daily fee counties must pay to house inmates.
According to The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, Cabell County Circuit Judge David Pancake also said the authority improperly raised the per diem fee from 45 dollars to 48-dollars-and-50-cents.
He said a quorum for the vote wasn't documented.
The jail authority's attorney said the decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The judge's rulings came after a dispute between Cabell County Commission and the authority over their regional jail bill.
The jail authority asked the state Supreme Court last year to order the commission to pay more than one-and-a-half million dollars in unpaid jail bills.
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