Sean C. Morgan
Linn County Sheriff’s Office will close its two wings of state prisoners and parole and probation services this year.
Linn County has forwarded notification to the state that it will no longer participate in the community corrections program, Sheriff Dave Burright said. The program started in the mid-1990s under Senate Bill 1145.
The law made counties responsible for prisoners serving sentences of a year or less and state parole and probation. Under…