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Pete Luke wondered if expenses incurred by the sheriff’s department under the present operation would go down once the county jail became a lock-up. “Like, would the food bill go down?’’ Luke wanted to know, suggesting that saving on this kind of expenditure might help pay for the county’s share of a new deputy’s salary.
“In a lock-up, we recommend two sandwiches and a beverage,’’ Gibbs said. “The state will pay for all who are detained on state charges and you’d pay for feeding those arrested on county charges.”
“Suppose a guy in a lock-up got appendicitis. Who’d pay?” Luke asked.
Gibbs told him the state would pay the hospital bill as long as the prisoner was arrested on state charges, but the sheriff would have to furnish an armed guard at the hospital.
“WHAT BOTHERS me, is that some of these fellows get in jail and have it better than ever before,” Luke said. “All this just makes it obvious; we’re going to have to go to a regional jail,” Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis said. “We need to appoint a committee to do a study.”
Gibbs pointed out that a regional jail is at least three years away. “But we can’t continue to operate the Rappahannock jail as we have.”
Sheriff Luther Cox of Fauquier was asked if he could continue to keep Rappahannock’s prisoners.
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