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Officials in Yadkin county have received the injunction issued yesterday by a Superior Court judge that orders a committee to stop working on plans for a jail smaller than the one that the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners approved in 2007.

Judge John Craig ordered the committee to cancel its meetings until he holds a hearing on the matter on Jan. 8. Craig told the commissioners Monday that in the coming weeks he would send orders and subpoenas to them asking them to explain why they haven't build a new jail.

In the injunction, Craig said that the committee was trying circumvent the wishes of the commissioners by working on a smaller jail, and that the committee's chairman was undermining the process. The injunction was served as expected, last evening. Commision chair Chad Wagoner told the Winston-Salem Journal he will follow the Craig injunction, but said he was frustrated over the delays in building the planned jail.