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dispatchers and corrections officers so they can check on the prisoners,” he added.
Fauquier Overcrowded
The question of where the county will keep its prisoners arose last week when Fauquier sheriff Luther Cox announced that as of March 31, Rappahannock prisoners can not be housed in the Fauquier jail.
“We've been keeping them nere for years and Rappahannock County has done nothing to get its own jail,” Cox said in a telephone interview Tuesday morning. T’n pointed out that Fauquier 1 ’ capacity of 44 and has been running eight or nine prisoners over that limit for some time now.
Cox defended the deadline he announced to the Rappahannock supervisors in a letter received last Thursday. “It's not short notice. We’re just full up.” Asked if he would consider extending the March 31 limit on accepting prisoners from Rappahannock, Cox countered "Where am I going to put them?...I’d be happy to help Rappahannock if we could but we just don't have the room.”
He maintained that the county has "a good jail...It wouldn’t take long to open that up.” According to Cox, the reason that the county's facility—now just used for 48 hour lock-up only—doesn’t meet Department of Correction standards is that the facility isn’t manned.
Inspection Set
Tony Bottley, regional manager of the Department of Corrections, verified in a telephone conversation on Tuesday that he has an appointment to inspect the Rappahannock jail on April 13 with an architect from the Department. “We want to look at the possibility of opening your lock-up as a jail... I don't think it needs much done except to see that someone is there.”
Juvenile prisoners must be checked every half hour under state regulations, accordin to Bottley. “But we don’t anticipate this being used much for juveniles,” he noted. For adult prisoners, regulations call for “frequent observations,” he said, without specifying minimum standards on often how often those observations must occur.
In the visit on April 13, Bottley said he will evaluate the county’s facilities from the standpoint of whether the current lock-up "is a humane place to incarcerate people” while the architect will determine if it provides "a sufficient degree of security for the community.”
The deadline on prisoner acceptance from Fauquier is the result of overcrowding that has plagued state and local penal institutions for
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