Today’s radar speed checks

Little Rock and North Little Rock police and the Pulaski County sheriff’s office will use radar to detect speeding at these locations. Police and sheriff’s deputies may conduct radar checks in other locations as well. Little Rock: Riverfront Dr. North Little Rock: Skyline Dr. Pulaski County: Faulkner Lake Rd.

It costs the county $65 a day for each inmate, Cantrell said.

Fayetteville closed its jail in 2005 and started to send inmates to the county jail. Fayetteville pays the county a one-time $62 fee for every misdemeanor arrest booked into the detention center. Madison County and the U.S. Marshals Service also have inmates at the county jail and pay $62 a day for each inmate housed there.

Revenue from a one-fourth percent county sales tax is dedicated to the county jail, but it doesn’t cover the operating cost, Cantrell said. The annual operating cost is $14 million, and the tax raises $9 million a year. The jail supplements the cost by housing federal and state prisoners. The state pays a daily fee of $30 per inmate, Cantrell said.

Springdale likely would have to pay the county to house its inmates, Cantrell said.

“It’s more efficient if we do everybody’s inmates in the grand scheme of things,” he said. “They have to pay their way if it’s paying sales tax or a housing fee just like Fayetteville does.”