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require that any time there is a prisoner in jail, or in a lock-up until he’s transferred to a jail, he must have constant supervision and should be checked every half hour,” Gibbs said.
‘‘Of course, we are reasonable. If it’s 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning and a man is normal, we realize you can allow more than a half hour between checks. Now if he’s brought in late, and he’s drunk, you must check him every half hour to make sure he’s sobering up and not trying to commit suicide.”
‘‘Do you want the dollars and cents?” John Walker Jenkins asked Chairman Pete Luke.
“If we’ve got to talk about money, I guess we do,” Luke said. John Walker said that the state would pay two-thirds of the costs of salaries for four additional people, if the county opted for a jail. The state would pay one third of a new deputy’s salary if the county decided to operate as a lock-up.
‘‘flow’d this all come about?” Herbert Barksdale asked of Gibbs. ‘‘Were people dying in the jails?”
Gibbs explained that the American Civil Liberties Union had brought suit against the Virginia Department of Corrections and the suit is still pending. ‘‘So, when we go back into court, we want to show (federal) Judge Merhige that we have taken steps to upgrade.” Gibbs said that new standards had come into effect some months ago, but it was the pending litigation that had prompted state prison officials to ‘‘get out and make the
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