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With correctional officers ready to leave for the training that will qualify them to oversee inmates and dispatchers hired to take over operation of police, fire and rescue communications, there remains only one obstacle to the newly renovated jail becoming fully operational. Who is going to feed the prisoners?
Sheriff Woodward told the supervisors on Monday that he has received two bids for catering jail meals: $10 a day from the Hampton Inn and $9.90 a day from Nature’s Foods and Cafe, both Washington restaurants. He added that the offer from Hampton Inn also requires a guarantee for a minimum service to three prisoners per day. “I’ve got to pick up the meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) from the Hampton Inn; Nature’s Foods will deliver,” Woodward added.
“It looks like it will run more per day than what the state thought we should get by on,” the sheriff said, reporting that a representative from the State Department of Corrections in Richmond had advised holding the cost of catered meals to $6 per prisoner per day.
To balance the estimated high cost of providing food, Woodward suggested that the supervisors authorize purchase of a washing machine and a dryer from
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