Glad to hear they have surplus jail space and $ in Lorain for this sort of thing. I knew a guy who worked in a county jail doing booking and he said it costs the county about $100 just to process an inmate. I can believe that with all the deputy time and paperwork that is generated.
That guy you knew doesn't know what he's talking about. There is no set cost for processing an inmate at a county jail. All of the jail employees are paid a set salary so the costs for processing inmates doesn't change from one day to the next, regardless of how many inmates are processed.