Berry challenges account

Regarding the jail, Sheriff Scott Berry comments on the article and accuses Blake of misquoting him ...

I spoke to the author of this article at length, and I am sure he missed something in his notes. It is incorrect to say that we "never" housed Clarke Co inmates. Both Sheriff Edwards and I know that is not true. We have housed inmates back and forth for 17 years. I told the reporter that we had in fact housed small numbers of CC inmates both before our new jail was built, and after. We have been ordered by Judges to house CC inmates when there was a need to do so as well. It is not unusual at all for Sheriffs to house inmates in another jail on a short term, no contract basis. We have done the same for Morgan and Greene as well. When a Sheriff contracts to house inmates, generally speaking the contract provides that the receiving Sheriff will guarantee a certain number of beds to the sending Sheriff. That is what we have done for Fulton County.