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H.B. Wood wondered how soon the 109 prisoners that had been in the Rappahannock jail this year had gotten out on bond. “Well, there’s 109 prisoners and 600some prisoner days. I suppose it’d average out to something like five days a prisoner,” John Walker Jenkins said.
Jenkins renewed his plea for another deputy. “It’s not for pleasure that we have to run over to Warrenton. We wouldn’t make a special trip for everyone. We try now to get two or three together before going. But you don’t realize—some of these prisoners will have to be brought back here for court three or four times.”
“I’m happy with the way it is,” Jenkins said. “But all this is what the state law says.”
PETE LUKE NOTED that Sheriff Jenkins, Judge Rayner Snead and Fauquier Sheriff Luther Cox had gotten together and worked out the current arrangement, in which any long-term Rappahannock prisoners are taken to Fauquier.
“So even though they got together and worked all that out, it’s not acceptable to the state?” Pete Luke asked of Gibbs and Jenkins.
John Walker Jenkins shook his head. “What I need from you is a letter saying that we have gone to the lock-up, and one more deputy.”
H.B. Wood said, “Now you don’t have to have an extra deputy. The state doesn’t say that. You just need a letter saying we’ve gone
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