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Published December 28, 2009, 12:00 AM

Lake County jail


Then-Lake County Sheriff Steve Peterson poses in the Lake County jail in 2003. At the time, Lake County was the first in Northeastern Minnesota to require prisoners to pay a fee for each day spent behind bars. Now, the cost of feeding county jail inmates has risen. (2003 file / News Tribune)
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