The bills related to the explosion of the Central Booking and Detention Facility keep coming.

The costs related to the explosion on April 30 that killed two inmates, paralyzed a corrections officer, injured 184 people and rendered Central booking unusable have been slowly trickling in.

In the agenda packet for today’s County Commission meeting is a listing of emergency purchase orders that total more than $50,000 each related to the CBD explosion. The public forum portion of that meeting begins at 4:30 p.m. today; the regular meeting begins at 5:30 p.m.

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The County is continuing to pay to house Escambia female inmates in either Santa Rosa or Okaloosa county jails. Okaloosa is charging $50 per person per day for the 50 women in their care.

Deputy Rich Aloy, public information officer for the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office, says Santa Rosa has been charging Escambia $58 per day per person to house our inmates, the same rate they charge to house federal prisoners. A contract between the two counties for a longer-term solution is being negotiated.

As of June 3, Aloy said, there are 121 females Escambia inmates in Santa Rosa’s care for a daily charge of $7,018.

“We average between 121 and 135,” he said.

It has been 34 days since the explosion.

Escambia is sending six corrections officers to the Santa Rosa jail to watch those inmates in 24-hour periods in an effort to save money, said county spokesman Bill Pearson.

Male inmates are in either the main jail, the road prison in Cantonment or the work-release center on Fairfield Drive. Before the explosion, there were 607 inmates in Central Booking.

Find the full agenda here.

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