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| Culpeper jail crowding still an issue |
| By dailyprogress.com- Allison Brophy Champion |
| Published: 06/03/2015 |
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Crowding continues to be a costly problem at the Culpeper County Jail as the board of supervisors Tuesday approved an additional $550,000 in funding to send local inmates to other facilities while they await court dates. The current fiscal year budget is $900,000 total for outside jail services, compared to $218,841 three years ago — a more than 200 percent increase. Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, speaking before the board, said his office has not experienced a comparable increase in arrests in that time, adding that in 2012 they tripled the DUI and drug arrests, and that they've had a normal to moderate increase in other areas. In the past two years alone, he said, the inmate population has doubled due to what he speculated was a backlog in the local court system. "There is a large population awaiting sentencing," he said, adding that he is not aware of any other counties in the area experiencing the same level of increase in jail population. When Jenkins first took office at the start of 2012, the average number of inmates housed on a daily basis in the Culpeper jail was 70, compared to as many as 84 now, he said. Read More. |
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