Callaway and other counties throughout the state won't be able to afford expensive new requirements mandated by the federal government designed to eliminate inmate rapes, Callaway County Sheriff Dennis Crane predicts.
Crane reacted to new rules mandated by the Obama Administration Thursday requiring all city and county jails to classify inmates by the degree of violence.
President Obama directed the Justice Department to write rules and regulations to implement a federal law passed in 2003 known as the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
To help the tornado-stricken people of Dumas and surroundings, donations can be made to the Delta Area Disaster Relief Fund, care of the Delta Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 894, Dumas, AR, 71639, or through the Arkansas Community Foundation, 700 S. Rock St., Little Rock, AR, 72202.