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Meyer 9/2/70 0610 MORE FOR ?RIi0ERS The price for staying at the Dallas County jail will apparently go up soon. County Commissioners tomorrow are expected to approve an increase from $1 a day to 110 a Day for holding prisoners for other law enforcement agencies. The commissioners are also said to be ft"huOst-negotiating an increase from t3.25 a day to $7.50 for holding federal prisoners. Commissioner Jim Tyson says it has become impossible to rocess and hold and feed a prisoner for $1 a day. 91a Sheriff Clarence Jones..--appointed also after the death of Bill Decker--requested the increase.