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Eastern Cherokees approve $26M for jail and justice center

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will be spending $26 million on a jail and justice center.

The original cost of the jail was $20 million. But the tribe added a courthouse and police station to the project, raising the price tag.

The tribe is using $18 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Price tag inches up on Cherokee jail and justice center (The Smoky Mountain News 5/8)

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