St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard, left, and Van Reed, parish emergency preparedness director, speak after Wednesday’s Eunice Rotary Club meeting. Bellard spoke at the meeting. At far right in the background is retired judge Ellis Daigle. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Housing prisoners is an ongoing cost to St. Landry Parish Government that is eroding finances, said Parish President Jessie Bellard in talking to Eunice Rotarians.
“Those inmates are costing us roughly $2 million a year,” he said at the Wednesday meeting.
Each prisoner costs parish government $18 a day and that’s up from $14, he said.
“The system is working. It is just too much into the syst…
