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Illinois Taxpayers Still Paying for a Paid-off Jail
Loaded on March 6, 2018
by Monte McCoin
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2018, page 29
Filed under:
Government Misconduct.
Location:
Illinois.
by Monte McCoin
Residents in Tazewell County, Illinois pay a half-cent public safety sales tax on most purchases inside county lines. The tax was approved by voters in 2000 to pay for the construction of a new $17 million jail. Although the Tazewell County Justice Center building was paid off ...
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