Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, December 4, 1993 TAG: 9312040076
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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The preliminary draft for the project envisions a total staff of 120 to handle up to 338 prisoners initially.
The proposed staff would include 14 administrative and staff members, 12 employees for food, laundry and warehouse services, 37.5 for intake, release and medical services, 11 to handle special housing units, and 45.5 for the main housing and inmate programs.
The partial numbers reflect part-time employees.
As now planned, the jail would be built so it could be expanded to 600 beds with relative ease.
Thompson & Litton Inc. and Hansen Lind Meyer Inc. presented a conceptual study in which the unit's core would be built so as to be able to support 600 beds. Future housing units would be built around that core as needed.
One housing unit would be for females only.
Pulaski and Wythe counties had dropped out of the project which included Giles, Floyd, Carroll and Grayson counties and the city of Radford. Pulaski County rejoined after its own study showed the regional approach as less costly in the long run than trying to expand its own jail.
If a locality decided it wanted fewer beds than called for in earlier studies projecting their prisoner populations, the housing units could be scaled down prior to construction.
Pulaski County Sheriff Ralph Dobbins was elected as the group's vice chairman. Carroll County Administrator Billy Mitchell had been chosen as chairman at the last meeting.
The group spent 50 minutes in closed session to evaluate potential jail sites.
by CNB