 Appalachian Wireless now has new forward pay prices where you can pay up front and get the data and features you design. Five gigabytes of data, just $39.99. Unlimited, just $79.99. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The Pike County Detention Center is hoping to increase revenue through the housing of federal inmates. At today's Pike County physical court meeting, jailer Brian Morris told the court that he plans to increase the amount of money charged to the federal government to house those inmates in Pike County. After delivering the draft budget for the Pike County Detention Center for the upcoming fiscal year, jailer Brian Morris said he plans to look for ways to increase revenue. One possible avenue is through the housing of federal inmates and increasing the cost incurred on the federal government for housing those inmates in Pike County. Morris said it cost Pike County about $26 per day to house an inmate, federal or local, in the jail. The feds pays the county $35 a day for every U.S. national prisoner we have. You know, and me and Dexter and Jason sit down and started looking at that. We kind of researched why they pay another detention center. Morris told the court that Pike County is underpaid for housing federal inmates. He said revenue generated from those federal prisoners could increase dramatically with an increase in the fee charged to the federal government for housing those inmates. Last year, the U.S. Marshals paid the county $255,500. That's based on the $35 a day human. If I get my increase, that $255,000 will go for up to $438,000. Currently, we house 20 U.S. Marshals prisoners and with the rate that we're billing now compared to the rate that I asked for using the same amount of numbers, you're looking at another $182,000 more on the year coming into the county. You know, knowing how much it cost a day to keep an inmate up and know what they pay, I felt it was necessary to ask for an increase just to kind of offset the day-to-day expense. Morris declined to reveal at this time the amount of the increase the detention center is seeking to house federal inmates. Morris said he anticipates the government approving the request to raise the fee. In Pikeville, Chris Anderson, EKB News.