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Kansas City, Missouri, is moving forward with plans for a temporary, modular jail. It would most likely consist of manufactured trailers securely built together to form a detention center compound.

The modular jail would be used until the permanent detention center is completed off of Highway 40.

KCMO has not had its own municipal jail since 2015, and is facing a significant bed shortage for inmates. It's led to the city sending inmates out to Vernon and Johnson Counties in Missouri. The KSHB 41 I-Team learned hundreds of inmates were released from those jails before they were due out in the community.

Kansas City is looking at two options for the modular jail. One that would cost $19.2 million to build and the other would cost $15.9 million to build, ac

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