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| Va. State Police, Sheriff's Deputies to Huddle on Jail Deaths |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/16/2003 |
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'We've all been communicating with each other,' Stafford Sheriff Charles Jett, chairman of the regional jail board, told The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg on Monday. 'We're not investigating in a bubble.' Investigators will compare notes this week. The deaths since Oct. 4 include three suicides and one inmate who died in his cell of a likely heart attack or alcohol withdrawal. The Rappahannock Regional Jail serves Fredericksburg and Stafford, Spotsylvania and King George counties. The new jail opened in 2000 with 656 beds. Today, it houses up to 860 inmates each day, many sleeping three to a cell. Authorities have asked the National Institute of Corrections, a branch of the Justice Department, to review the jail's policies and procedures. The Colorado institute hired Lindsay Hayes, an expert on prison suicide, to evaluate the jail. He will spend several days there in July. In addition, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which houses federal prisoners at the regional jail, conducted an onsite review last week and determined the facility's suicide prevention policies are appropriate, jail Superintendent Larry Hamilton said. |
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