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Inmate Gene Brown looked out the window of his cell at the Kenton County Jail in Covington, Ky., on Tuesday, December 4, 2007. "I'd hate for any man who that has never done any time have to come up here and do a week," he said. "They'd go nuts. This is our rec(reation), looking out this window watching people drive by. I understand we've done what we've done to get in here. But I guess that's what you have to pay when you've done the crime." Like many in Kentucky, the Kenton County jail is seriously overcrowded, and yet the state contracts with it to hold state prison inmates because there are no available beds in the state prisons. Jailer Terry Carl is concerned enough about the crowding that he has been slowly reducing his involvement with the state's contract-prisoner program. Photo by David Stephenson | Staff 4599

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Inmate Gene Brown looked out the window of his cell at the Kenton County Jail in Covington, Ky., on Tuesday, December 4, 2007. "I'd hate for any man who that has never done any time have to come up here and do a week," he said. "They'd go nuts. This is our rec(reation), looking out this window watching people drive by. I understand we've done what we've done to get in here. But I guess that's what you have to pay when you've done the crime." Like many in Kentucky, the Kenton County jail is seriously overcrowded, and yet the state contracts with it to hold state prison inmates because there are no available beds in the state prisons. Jailer Terry Carl is concerned enough about the crowding that he has been slowly reducing his involvement with the state's contract-prisoner program. Photo by David Stephenson | Staff 4599