The Bradley County jail is bringing revenue into the county each month that helps off-set a portion of the county’s cost to operate the jail.

In the month of December, the most recent month where the county has received payment, total revenue generated by normal jail operation was $229,690. The amount varies slightly from month to month based on changes to the jail population, but by far the two largest revenue generators are the housing of federal and state inmates in the jail’s general population.

Since it opened in 2004, the county has had a contractual agreement with the U.S. Marshall’s Service that commits up to 100 beds for federal detainees. They, in turn, reimburse the county at the rate of $49.60 a day for each federal inmate while in the county’s custody.

Inmates who have been placed in state custody and are waiting for beds to become available in a state prison, generate $35 a day.

For the month of December state inmates brought in revenue of $88,620 and federal inmates added another $125,553.

Other revenue sources, including the inmate phone system, fees from the sex offender registry, and the inmate commissary, brought in another $15,517.

In the first six months of the fiscal year, (July – December) the jail’s revenue account shows $1,383,035.90.