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Tampa jail may scale back due to few RNC arrests [1]

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By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune
Published: August 29, 2012

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 Police officers walk a man to a holding cell after they found him with a large knife during a march on Sunday. (AP)

TAMPA -- The Orient Road Jail was ready.

Temporary fencing ringed the jail and a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office patrol car blocked the entrance. Booking facilities for non-convention arrests already had been moved to the Falkenburg Road jail.

But instead of struggling to deal with an influx of protesters arrested during the Republican National Convention, Col. James Previtera had a different problem today – how to trim the hours of detention deputies.

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