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Jackson County approves $7M land purchase for new jail

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Jackson County's government approved a $7 million purchase of an east Kansas City mobile home park for the site of its new jail.

Residents of roughly 100 trailer homes will be displaced by the project.

The $260 million jail project would replace the 40-year-old Jackson County Detention Center in downtown Kansas City.

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