
    
      OPINION ISSUED JANUARY 27, 1995
    
    REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AUTHORITY VS. DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS
    (CC-94-827)
    Jack Roop, Executive Director, for claimant.
    Carol Egnatoff, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM:

This claim was submitted for decision based upon the allegations in the Notice of Claim and the respondent’s Answer.

Claimant, Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, provides and maintains the Eastern Regional Jail and the Central Regional Jail as facilities for the incarceration of prisoners who have committed crimes in various counties. Some of the prisoners held in these regional jails have been sentenced to facilities owned and maintained by the respondent, Division of Corrections. Claimant brought this action in the amount of $851, 731.02, to recover the costs of housing prisoners who have been sentenced to a State penal institution, but due to circumstances beyond the control of the claimant, these prisoners have had to remain in the regional j ails for periods of time beyond the dates of the commitment orders.

Respondent and claimant then filed a settlement document stating that the parties have agreed that the sum of $841,731.02 is a fair and reasonable amount to satisfy this claim.

This Court has determined in prior claims by claimant for the cost of housing inmates that respondent is liable to claimant for these costs, and that Court has made the appropriate awards. This issue was resolved by the Court previously in the claim of County Comm’n. of Mineral County v. Div. of Corrections, an unpublished opinion of the Court of Claims issued November 21, 1990, wherein the Court held that the respondent is liable for the cost of housing inmates.

In view of the foregoing, the Court makes an award to claimant in the amount of $841,731.02.

Award of $841,731.02.  