"Up to 200 of the jail's estimated 2,000 inmates are felons, Oliva said."
Can someone be an inmate without being a felon? Maybe I need more coffee, or since it's 4:15pm, an adult beverage.
How ridiculous is all of this? Let's lay the wood to these people.
Sure, a felony is a serious crime normally punishABLE by a year or more in state prison (though not always punishED in that way). People in a municipal jail are probably being held pending trial or sentencing, or may have been convicted of a misdemeanor, a less serious crime. Thus they may not have even been convicted of anything yet. "Felon" is not sctrictly synonymous with "criminal".