The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday approved a contract to accept inmates from the Potter County Jail.

The contract with Potter County is the sixth for housing out-of-county inmates in the Butler County prison.

Warden Joe DeMore told the board that a Potter County prison official recently contacted him about housing a female inmate because that prison doesn’t house female inmates.

Solicitor Will White said Potter County usually sends its female inmates to a neighboring county, but that county can only accommodate four female inmates.

“We have plenty of room for women,” DeMore said. The prison can house up to 72 female inmates.

Potter County, like the other counties, will be charged $60 a day per inmate.

The county also has contracts to accept inmates from Franklin, Allegheny, Armstrong, Clinton and Venango counties.

As of March 8, only two out-of-county inmates were among the 419 total inmates in the county prison. There also were 217 federal inmates and 10 state inmates in the prison.

So far this year, the county has been paid just over $1 million to house federal inmates, $42,693 for state inmates and $10,608 for out-of-county inmates. As of Feb. 28, the prison brought in $921,511 of the $1,148,165 in payments due for housing federal, state and other county inmates.

In other business, the board hired Joshua Evans as an irregular-hour correction officer.