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Will Passaic County's jail close?

Clip: 9/22/2021 | 4m 16sVideo has Closed Captions

It’s a complicated shuffle that ultimately gets decided by one major factor: money

The fate of Passaic County’s jail is hanging in the balance. A formal committee, put together last month, is assessing whether to shut down the 60-year-old prison with a troubled past. Its closure would join the list of several other county correctional facilities that now send their inmates to nearby jails.

09/22/2021

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