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IF THE county will have to pay so much to repair the jail, why can’t they get more use of
it, Baldwin wondered. He complained about bills from Fauquier County, where Rappahannock prisoners are sent. “They told ^s at first we wouldn’t have to pay for anything except laundry. All I can say is, from these bills they must be keeping ’em clean,” Baldwin said.
Chairman Pete Luke told Baldwin that requirements of state law have made it almost impossible for Rappahannock to operate its jail as anything other than a “lockup.” In a lock-up, prisoners can be keptj for 24 hours. Aftenthat, they Jftust be transferred to a full rcale jail. In a jail, prisoners must be checked on every 30 minutes, fed hot meals and a half dozen or so other requirements that would necessitate a sizable increase in Rappahannock’s Sheriff’s Department’s staff and budget, if the county were to operate a jail. Until Fauquier refuses to take the prisoners or until the cost Fauquier charges for Rappahannock’s prisoners increases dramatically, the Supervisors have decided it will be more economical to keep the county jail as only a “lock-up.”
Baldwin acknowledged that his furnace repairman friend isn’t always ready, or able, to work. “I’ll agree, when he’s drunk hecan’tfix nothing. But when he’s sober, he does good work,” Baldwin said.
Sheriff Buntin said he’s never seen the man sober for a couple of days at the time. Supervisor
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