By George Gramlich

Well the rumor mill was true, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office will be closing down our county jail. In the December 6, 2022 Custer County Board of County Commissioners meeting, the County Attorney mentioned that he was tasked with developing an Inter Governmental Agreement between Custer County and Fremont County to allow Custer to house our inmates there.

This move has been developing for some time. The criminal loving democrats in Denver have passed legislation requiring incredibly expensive housing and accommodations for locally jailed criminals including a 24/7  in-house medical provider. These will be implemented fairly soon. In addition, our EMS service has recently announced it won’t be doing medical inspections of new inmates and won’t do blood draws (for drug and DUI arrests). Our EMS has been doing this for the Sheriff’s Office for decades. This has forced the Sheriff’s Office to go outside the county to obtain those services with a huge cost increase.

This is a developing story. We should have more details next week.