GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Hall County will seek new terms when bidding to continue housing state inmates in its jail.

Corrections director Fred Ruiz told Hall County supervisors on Tuesday that state inmates are more demanding to oversee compared to county inmates. Ruiz says the state inmates are “a handful.”

Hall County began taking in the state inmates last June amid prison overcrowding at the state level. The county was contracted to house up to 80 state inmates a day for $88 per inmate per day.

Counties must respond Wednesday to the state’s request for proposals for inmate housing. Ruiz says he plans to respond with a bid of up to $93 per inmate per day if the state provides 96 inmates daily.

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