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By DAPHNK HUTCHINSON
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The first hurdle in upgrading the county's jail facilities to meet minimum standards set by the State Department of Corrections has been cleared.
Culpeper architect Hunter Spencer reported on Tuesday that Peter Andrews of the department's architect and design unit for capital outlay and maintenance in Richmond has given preliminary approval to conceptual plans for remodeling the jailer's current living quarters.
Plans call for the space to be turned into an indoor recreation room for prisoners, offices for the county-wide dispatch system and visitors' room. The conceptual drawings also include relocated showers in the old jail section, separate cell block accommodations for males, females and juveniles and emergency exits.
After reviewing the plans last week. Andrews agreed that renovation rather than adding onto the existing jail “was the way to do it,” Spencer said. The Department of Corrections official proposed several changes including:
—securing the basement so that the only access is from the exterior of the building,
—adding a fenced, outside exercise yard,
—installing smoke and fire alarm systems and an intercom system,
—providing access to the building for handicapped persons,
— installing exterior lighting.
—removing the frame structure at the end of the existing brick building,
—upgrading electrical wiring in the cell block section.
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