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John Capelle, executive director of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission, has joined the Rappahannock supervisors in their search for outside funds to defray the cost of upgrading the county’s 24hour lock-up to meet minimum jail standards.
The scramble for jail funds began in March when Fauquier Sheriff Luther Cox announced that his jail would no longer accept Rappahannock's prisoners. Since then, Rappahannock sheriff W. A. Buntin has canvassed correctional facilities within reasonable driving distance and found that only Charlottesville and Shenandoah jails have empty beds on any kind of a regular basis.
Department of Corrections officials, after inspecting the county's 24-hour lock-up facilities last month, indicated that Rappahannocks former jail can be renovated to meet minimum state standards for a “ball park” estimate of $150,000.
Faced with round-trips of over 100 miles for transporting prisoners IF space is available elsewhere, the supervisors have tentatively agreed to renovate the old Rappahannock jail but they want help in financing.
Capelle told the board on Monday that $450,000 for jail construction is left in the state budget for the current biennium (which ends June 30). However, most of that
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