Sean C. Morgan
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has reopened a 48-bed block at Linn County Jail that had been closed in 2012 as part of budget cuts.
Linn County voters passed a law enforcement levy in May 2014 that provided the funding to reopen the block. The levy provided funding for enough corrections deputies to staff the block.
The jail has a capacity of 230 inmates. It opened in 1989.
Sheriff Bruce Riley does…