MARION COUNTY, Ind. -- People who are arrested in Marion County will now go straight to lock up instead of to the Arrestee Processing Center, which closed for good Sunday night.
Marion Co. Sheriff John Layton chose Sept. 24 as the date to close the APC to coincide with the date the judicial branch vacated the space.
If someone is arrested, they will be processed at the Marion Co. lock up at the City-County Building downtown and then go jail.
The sheriff's department will continue to transport arrestees for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Speedway police, Lawrence police and other police departments in Marion County until January 2018.
After that point, police will have to take their own prisoners to jail as part of cost-cutting measures announced by Sheriff Layton back in August.
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In addition, the sheriff's department will no longer provide hospital security services to local police.
When Layton announced the cuts, he pointed out that the sheriff’s department was never required to provide such services to begin with, and that sheriffs’ departments in Indiana’s 91 other counties don’t.
