GARNETT — Some staffers at the new Anderson County Law Enforcement Center now have one more duty — cook. Because of kinks with kitchen equipment in the jail, the jail couldn’t prepare hot meals in the kitchen, Anderson County Sheriff Scot Brownrigg told the Anderson County Review. The number of inmates were kept low to cut costs for meals in the meantime and with the problems fixed, the county can now begin taking more inmates. Anderson County hopes to house inmates from other counties as a way to help pay the $5.5 million cost of the law enforcement center, which opened in August. Anderson County has a contract with Johnson County and has started to house inmates from Miami County. Brownrigg says Douglas and Sedgwick counties have expressed interest in housing inmates at Garnett.
