The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is spending nearly twice as much on daily overtime for jail operations than it did two years ago, even though the number of inmates housed at the jails has fallen by about 10% since then.
Overtime spending at the county’s two jails has jumped from an average of about $15,000 a day in fiscal year 2024 to about $30,000 a day through April of the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, an El Paso Matters analysis of Sheriff’s Office overtime spending shows.
At the same time, the average daily jail population has dropped from about 2,760 in FY 2024 to about 2,470 through April of this fiscal year…