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Champaign County Board Tries to Find Way to Relieve Jail Overcrowding

Updated: January 7, 2009
Court cases in Champaign County are always increasing and so are the inmates at its jails. Thursday, county leaders met for the last in a series of meetings to try to solve the problem. The idea is to bring the jail population down by speeding up the judi

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