The 2016 Public Safety Bond’s passage came against a backdrop of jail overcrowding.

The bonds allowed for the expansion of Hays County Jail and at least until that is completed, some of the Hays inmates are being outsourced to other county lockups.

Each week, County Judge Ruben Becerra gives a public presentation of how many inmates are outsourced, where they were taken and at what cost to taxpayers.

For the week of Oct. 20-26, the cost of outsourcing was $82,963. The jail’s average pop...