Andrea Macko reports in Porcupine Soup that the new Greene County Jail is now open, and officials noted the controversy about building the facility at the dedication Oct. 13. One of the issues was if they the county was building too large of a facility with 16 beds for female inmates and 48 for men. Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky said on Oct. 13 that there were 36 male inmates in the new facility. The new jail cost $47 million, paid for by a $39 million loan and $8.1 million of taxpayer money from the county fund balance. The county closed the old jail, built first in 1908, in April of 2018 because of structural concerns, boarding inmates in neighboring county jails for more than three years. Some in the community wanted to keep it that way, and spending the millions on other issues. a href="https://porcupinesoup.com/new-sheriffs-office-and-jail-dedicated">Read more about this story in Porcupine Soup.