As of Tuesday afternoon, 14 inmates from Hall County are being boarded at the Dawson County Detention Center as part of the Hall County Sheriff’s Office efforts to reduce the population at its jail due to lack of staffing. According to a report by the Gainesville Times, the Hall County office recently began boarding some inmates in other counties and identifying inmates who could be released for house arrest or pretrial supervision. The Hall County jail is not overcrowded- 689 out of the 1,026 beds in the facility were full last Thursday. Rather, there are not enough jailers. A full shift of jailers is 24, but the jail has been as low as 18 per shift due to employee recruitment and retention problems. The office supplements with overtime and deputies from other divisions.